Quotes About Recognition

Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.

People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn't be the thing that defines you in the first place.

We met Ben Mendelsohn, who had acted with Ryan Gosling in 'A Place Beyond the Pines,' and that's the first place where we'd seen him. And we're embarrassed to say that we didn't know that he was a famous Australian actor at the time that we saw it.

The first time we went to the ACMs, no one really knew who we were.

There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.

Awards shows... I just feel like a fish out of water at those things.

I'm delighted to have been accepted into the U.S.A. with my fishing program after its success in Australia and throughout the U.K., Europe, and Asia.

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.

Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.

Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.

As a man of colour, I've spent my life asking people to see me for who I am. With Obama in the White House, it feels like people have finally caught up to where I've been most of my life.

I'm the only fighter to ever go to the White House and meet with a sitting president.

Being on 'House of Cards' really has given me so much more than just a job; the interactions I have had with real White House correspondents, other journalists and bloggers relating to my character Janine - and their thanking me for representing them - has been extraordinary.

While I acknowledge that it's not my whiteness that has given me my platform entirely... it's part of the reason I've garnered so much acceptance and praise for being out and nonbinary.

Well, I think that I have a complicated relationship with whiteness because oftentimes, I pass as white, and I recognize that. I would be disingenuous to pretend that I don't pass as white.

Obviously, you want to wear the whites. If someone calls you a Test player, there is no bigger compliment.

I'm really thankful to everyone who has been part of my journey.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

I played at Sony, Warner Bros., Universal, Big Machine, Capitol... after I played every one of those places, everyone offered me a record deal. I was just like, 'Who am I? Why do I even deserve this?' There are people busting their butts on Broadway doing this hardcore, playing three hours a night for tips, and I didn't even ask for it.

I've had people hang around me because I'm Bruce Lee's daughter, and it's kind of a blow. You start to ask yourself, 'Who am I?', 'What's valuable about me?', 'Is what's valuable about me that I'm Bruce Lee's daughter?'

Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.