Adversity Quote by James Arthur

“It's always amazing when a fan will say you've helped them through some kind of adversity.”

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Me and my mum didn't see eye-to-eye for a lot of years, and I've never really felt connected with my dad, because he wasn't…

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I'm a mix; I'm sure some of my Canadian friends find me very American, both in person and on the page.

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I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so…

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I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've…

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I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.

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It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have…

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If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe.…

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And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and pasted - but a performance, even if somebody's there with a video camera, is one time only: the audience experiences something that won't exist when the performance is over, and which won't ever be reproduced in exactly the…

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I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on…

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Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

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People were telling me it was refreshing I was real because previous 'X Factor' winners were too afraid to say anything. I decided to…

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Everyone wrote me off, including me.

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We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

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When we have public success we also have private struggles.

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“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was actually not the most serious threat that the United States faced. The president can and should speak of foreseeing an era in which these threats don't exist, but you must not believe his own rhetoric. To…

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He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

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“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength, within our trials lives our triumphs. Friction creates a platform for change, generates heat and or fervor and creates a motivational charge that gives us an opportunity to be better. A gem cannot be polished without…

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“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.”

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“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She will never let an illness, a diagnosis, or a prediction, define her. She doesn't want sympathy, because that type of attention is not her goal. She'd rather you see the woman who smiles in the face…

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