I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.
I'm very dogged when I believe in something. I'm also dark and twisty.
I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.
The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.
The Museum of the Bible, the sprawling, 430,000-square-foot tribute to the good book, has been dogged by controversies long before opening day. It's been criticized for not including enough Jesus, for excluding various religious traditions, and for being evangelical propaganda.
There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.