Quotes About Diversity

Having done 'Misfits' for three years solid, you become known for doing one thing, so I've wanted to change things up as much as possible with each job.

If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team... that's how you win games. It's easy.

You make sure you broaden yourself and have a good solid background in many different things. That's what you need to be a good scientist.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Glasgow's really friendly, with this impressive mix of real solidarity and identity that's very personal.

We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.

My solo show, 'A Lot More Me,' is part drag show, part burlesque show, part circus show, and part fashion show.

I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

It's archaic to think about films as a solo lead or multi-starrer.

Not being white has never prevented me from enjoying Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. These are heroes of mine.

Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.

Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.

Even back when I played 'straight-ahead,' I mixed it up. I played some free-form, classical adaptations, solo flute stuff. It was New Age in its own way.

I have many friends who had kids solo, who adopted, who used surrogates - no one was judging them - it's a new world!

When we auditioned for 'The X Factor,' we were five individuals going into the show. That obviously means we are five solo artists in our beings, so we have our own creative ideas, of what sounds the best music-wise, because we are all artists.

One of the reasons why I started creating my solo show is so that I have a place to put all of the accents that I do.

I saw Jennifer Batten do a cool guitar solo before I ever saw any other girl do a cool guitar solo.

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

When I meet people, a lot of people know me from different things whether it be when I was in the group or my solo stuff or 'You Got Served' or movies, it's really interesting that that film is a part of history. That's nuts.

The reason I started drag in the first place is because I felt like I never really fit in, and I still don't feel like I fit in to any of those places: the drag world, the circus world or the burlesque world. I'm kinda this combination of everything, so it made sense to me that I'd set out to do my own solo show.

I can show my characteristics and musical colors both as a member of Bigbang and as a solo artist.

Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to 'The Chronic,' there's flute solos and everything. It's always been there.

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.