Quotes About Diversity

Some people are meant to be bigger, and that's okay. Because if everybody was built the same, it would be a little boring. We enjoy the differences in each other, and I think that's what makes all of us beautiful.

The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen, then they can access their own stuff, feel it's okay, and then have the strength to speak out about things like we're talking about. About rising up.

I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

You've got to respect people; you've got to understand where they come from. We know where people in Oklahoma come from - that's why we get along.

Oklahoma City's not real small; it's got a good amount of the people.

I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.

Where I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it wasn't the south-east and it wasn't the deep south and it wasn't quite the south-west either.

What works for one writer may not work for another. There are as many methods as there are writers. Were you to live to a grand old age, you would still never have enough time to try them all.

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

I have degenerative bone disease and I walk with a cane. And when I wrote Six of Crows,' I went out on tour, and I met a lot of readers who would say, 'Oh, I don't know why, but I pictured Kaz as being an old man at first.' And I thought, of course you did, because the only people we see with mobility aids in media and in culture are old.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film.

There is a section of people who love fast food kind of music but there is also a sizable number of people who love the good old music of the '60s, '70s and '80s.

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

You listen to a song by Nicky Jam, and you don't think about reggaeton; you just think, 'I like that song.' I got old people listening to my music, young people listening to my music.

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.

I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.'

Some people love 'Roots;' some people hate 'Roots.' Some people only like the old stuff. Some people want me to play like I did when I was 15. I can't do that all the time. I try to bring a little bit of that into some stuff that I do, but I can't just be that only. There's much more to life than that.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.