I don't FIND myself so exercised by a DESPERATION to be NEW.

When I became a SONGWRITER, it was out of some SORT of desperation. I needed to CREATE something. I had to latch on to something, and the GUITAR was what I grabbed.

Eviction reveals PEOPLE's vulnerability and desperation as WELL as their INGENUITY and guts.

As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and THINK how we've harmed this beautiful PLANET since I was that age, I feel a KIND of desperation, ANGER, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the EMOTION is.

A lot of people didn't feel ATTRACTED to LABOUR, so they voted in DESPERATION for other things.

My hunger and desperation, being an ACTOR, an out of WORK actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an OPEN WOUND.

'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the LEAST clear NARRATIVE. To me, it's so much more about the feeling - desperation - than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development; it's just about a deep and desperate search for SOMETHING.

There's so little representation of PEOPLE who look LIKE me behind the camera that it makes you WANT to say yes to any opportunity out of DESPERATION. It puts you in a situation where you can't make your best work. Diversity for CHEAP.

I am one of those people who thrive on DEADLINES, NOTHING BRINGS on inspiration more readily than DESPERATION.

It has always been a sign of DESPERATION that racial-preference SUPPORTERS argue that the government can HONOR the constitutional mandate not to discriminate on the basis of RACE only by discriminating on the basis of race.

The high COST of housing is crushing poor FAMILIES and sending them to a state of DESPERATION.

Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a MOMENT of DESPERATION to a PRIEST or to SOMEBODY interrogating you about a CRIME.