As my passion is theatre when I do a film I'm taking time out from my theatre career. So, I'm desperate to get back into the theatre. So, I have to make sure that I put my foot down, especially with the agents and stuff, and say: "Hey no, I'm doing some theatre!" It is hard but it matters so much to me that it's just something that's going to be necessary and people will have to deal with it.
I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.
Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.
But desperate people find courage.
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. . . . Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.
I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.
Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.
She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood.
Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.
This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money
At this point in history, the desperate need for building a sustainable society and for managing energy usage makes for a really - of vast importance that we need to place on where we live and how we live in those places.
He was desperate to tell his news to some other cat; he almost felt that if a mouse crossed his path he would stop to inform it that it was about to be eaten by a ThunderClan deputy.
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.