Quotes About Challenges

We went through a whole lot in Washington, from winning 28, 29 games to going to the second round of the playoffs in two years. That was a tough time and a great time as well. Early, like my first year, it was really tough, because to be honest with you, I didn't want to be there.

Obviously, in the playoffs you play through things, and that's what I wanted to do. But there's also the reality that no matter how bad you want to play and how bad you want to get in there, there's also a question of how effective you are going to be.

There are going to be losses. There are going to be bad plays. There are going to be mistakes.

Destiny plays a very important role in my life.

I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

I view the experiences that I have had - both tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. They've been full of lessons. And I've learned to be open to those lessons.

Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.

I have seen a lot of top players being forced to retire in not very pleasant circumstances, and I don't want that happening to me.

It is impossible to please all the world.

You're never going to please 100 percent of women.

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad.

Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder.

For years, I'd go to the movies and see guys doing Boston accents and think, 'Oh please, God, I hope I never have to do that.'

I started training again four months after giving birth, and it was strange not to be fully in control - I'm so used to my body performing at a certain level, but it wasn't. I was like, 'Oh, man, can we go back to where we were, please?'