Quotes About Opportunity

Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.

I feel gifted for having the opportunity to compete in Daytona.

You're gifted to do something.

Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted - private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training - edutainment products are part of a system that divides children into haves and have-lesses.

Money is here to be made in America. - for those with the ability to earn it legitimately. The exception appears to be when you're young, gifted, and black. There are always questions when the three intertwine.

All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

As a mom, I'm going to be out there still fighting to make sure that every beautiful child has good schools, same communities, and a chance to succeed because God has given everybody unique gifts.

My favorite scripture is, 'Your gifts make room for you.' It's something I tell people all the time.

Within what gifts you are given you can change certain events in your life and some people choose not to do that.

For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.

For my first acting gig, I was a hand model for a Barbie commercial that was only going to air in Asia. And I was constantly trying to get my face in the shot.

I booked an E-Trade commercial. That's a lucrative gig.

The best gig is the one you've got.

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

I'm going to take each day and each thing and each gig as it comes at me.

If it wasn't for Boz, my life would've changed. Meeting the Porcaro brothers and getting that Boz Scaggs gig were two life-changing events for me. It all fell into place after that.

I accomplished a lot in 2017 that I'd dreamt of: a late night set, TV writing gig, a speaking movie role.

My first professional gig was on a show called 'Nikita,' and I played Al Qaeda No. 2. At that time I had to take those roles because I just wanted to get my foot in the door.

I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals.

I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.

Sometimes I get gigs in weird, artsy places because weird, artsy people embraced my public-access show, which I could only have done in the way I did in New York.