Quotes About Youth

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.

The idea of working in films came after I passed class ten. I was planning to set up a restaurant and manage a business.

You need to create a place where young students can flesh out their business plans and further develop their research projects and then have a fund to help students get started in their businesses.

When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.

I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.

As a kid I had gone to New York a handful of times with my family. I definitely think it planted a seed in me.

My favourite game is wiffle ball, a fake version of baseball with a plastic ball and bat that's really for kids.

I showed up pretty much at the exact right moment to end up with a lot of work on my plate very quickly, because I was young and foolish, and so I wrote very quickly.

My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'

Part of what I like to do with Brainfeeder is to get the younger kids hearing jazz, because they don't know where to go to really hear it. Brainfeeder gives me a platform to put out people like Kamasi Washington or Austin Peralta.

Its been instilled in me since I was young that I have to use my platform to change the world. Thats something thats part of my DNA. I think also that just being born as an Aboriginal woman, my life is politicised, so thats something Ive dealt with every day of my life.

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.

In high school I had some famously egregious fashion missteps. I was really out there in fashion, I think because I wanted attention. I would wear crazy patterns, skin-tight pants and giant platform shoes.

Platform flip-flops. Those were crazy. Wait, I don't think they were ever fashionable. But we saw them everywhere.

As a responsible citizen and a role model to a certain section of people, I need to use every available platform to reach out to the impressionable sections of our country.

When I took over 'New Mutants,' writing and drawing, and I figure this is a big deal, I'm 23, 22 at that time, and I am nervous because I've had nothing but success. And now they're giving me the entire platform to create. And I figure, if I fall flat on my face here, it's going to hurt. It's going to set me back.

Everyone should be themselves, and everybody makes mistakes, and young people who have a platform like I have, I know people who have a much bigger platform who are much more influential, who have made mistakes and learnt from them and had to do that on a public stage.

When I was younger, I was into fashion, but I wasn't always able to afford and have the platform to express myself and do different things that I'm able to do now.

The reason I do television is because we all have to work and earn a living, as I have four children. It's also a platform for me to share my knowledge and inspire the young.

You know what, I remember being on my T-ball team and telling people about 'Platoon.'

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

I used to play baseball with Jake Owen when I was a kid.

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.