Anna Popplewell Quotes

I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

I'm not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can't really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I'm at, and I didn't care how long it was going to take, because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.

It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.

I don't want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.

I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.

Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.

Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I've been through many, many years of behavioral problems, so I don't really look outside for stories.