Quotes About Challenges

I feel for people with crazy names. It's been a challenge, but if that's my struggle, I can live with it.

It was tough, so hard; it really was horrible when I was growing up. I was called so many names, all sorts.

I have a lot of big names on my side that I'm willing to fight, and I'm pretty sure they are willing to fight me, too.

People have been calling me names and setting me back my whole life. And with every fight it's just given me more fuel to my fire and in doing so I've become a success.

Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.

My nanny had me mam when she was 16.

I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.'

The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved, especially by a white man.

We all kind of dreamed about being musicians, but the narrative around being a musician is it'll never happen to you. It's not something that just happens - one in a million shot - all those things that just make you feel like it'll never happen.

People always want narratives to be clean and easy.

If you focus on the very narrow, myopic interaction between students, their teachers, and the curriculum, you are ignoring 90 percent of what's affecting that student's ability to learn and be ready to absorb that curriculum and perform well in school and reach their potential.

The margins for restaurants to make money are very, very narrow. It's a tough business, and to be a chef is a little bit masochistic.

My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.

NASCAR is not immune to the down economy.

We haven't made money in NASCAR in a long time.

Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to be in a band and play guitar, like I never was gonna get asked to do that.

You don't meet too many actors in Nashville.

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

I think it would be very hard to go out with an actress, because they're mad. Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

Secondary school was a lot harder. That was probably my hardest time. Some of the girls were really nasty. I had to move schools because of the bullying there.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

Baghban' happened with me when I was very new. I played a nasty daughter-in-law, to somebody I have idolised all my life: My Amitabh Bachchan.

Life is fun. And it's beautiful. But it's cold. Cutthroat. Nasty.

There are many challenges our country has - our economic security, our national security.