Quotes About Challenges

I have to say, post-fame was difficult because it wasn't just fame: it was super-fame of a kind that few have. It was attached to a generation's dreams, and my own personal dreams were mixed up in it, too.

There are a lot of misconceptions that we can't play fast bowling or we can't bowl fast. We should have mixed matches. I have also played a lot of matches against boys because that's how we train.

I'm really grateful for 'Gangs... ' but it wouldn't be wrong to say that it was a mixed blessing.

I came from a council estate in the '80s which was predominantly black, white or Indian. Being Chinese mixed race we instantly stuck out.

Being mixed race in Britain in the '80s and '90s, there just weren't loads of people who looked like me.

I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.

I've had opportunities to go out and play, but sometimes I haven't. It's been a mixture of both.

The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.

We were doing mobile games before the iPhone. We were doing free-to-play with 'Quake Live.' We wanted to do massively multiplayer stuff in the early days but didn't have the resources to do it.

I have a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), which has affected my growth and bone strength. In short, people with the kind of OI I have generally experience hundreds of fractures in their lifetime and use wheelchairs for mobility.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

I like the mode of business of aviation. It's a risky business with difficulties which you can fill with innovative ideas and different things.

There's definitely been times when I've been on sets and I was the bigger model in the room, where they're casting girls.

There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling, and there isn't really any job for me. It's being marginalized - that's the sad part.

A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.

When I started modeling, I didn't feel like I had a big sister to tell me how this industry works.

Relationships with a modeling career is super difficult.

When I first started in modeling, I went back to England, and it was really hard, because I would go around to the agencies and they would be like, 'We already have one mixed-race black girl.'

I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.

In modelling, it's very hard to keep in touch with the people you knew when you started.

We have to come into this industry so young, and you have to learn to take it as it is. I was scouted at 14, started modelling at 15, and lived in New York at 16.