Quotes About Diversity

I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.

I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It's a cornucopia of ways to move. There are choreographers in the company as - as diverse, as different from each other as Donald McKayle and Bill T. Jones, or Jawole Zollar and John Butler, Lar Lubovitch, you know, and Judith Jamison.

You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture books, love stories and stories of crisis and courage.

I just want to do as many utterly different parts as I can get. Variety teaches you to act, and it keeps you fresh in your approach.

It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.

The thing about me is that I love variety. I like to try new things, and I don't want to be pinned back.

Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.

There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.

I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

I always look for variety. I always want to run the gamut.

I grew up in New York where there is such a different variety of people.

There's competition among women everywhere you go. But back home, we understand that you can look like a variety of things and still be from the same culture. What I'm saying is that I've never felt like I was a light-skinned black woman. Never felt that way because we shared the same culture back home.

Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender.

I think in general, and in the film industry, that idea of having only one type of girl is changing. There's more variety because it's the world we live, and we want to portray that.

The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.

A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.

You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.

Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movies that say something.

I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.

Left to myself, I would only play an Indian. But the reality was that there were hardly any Indian characters I could play in the films made in England and Hollywood. So I had to learn how to disappear into a variety of characters.

I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.

I'm a variety girl when it comes to different genres.