Quotes About Growth

I like seeing new artists with no buzz, because I can give them game, and they'll take that and run with it. It's not like someone who's been around that feels like they know it all.

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.

I had a lot of learning on my feet.

It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.

I was a very feisty teenager and I got into a few altercations, and, you know, you mature and realize that's not the proper way to handle things.

There's no better way of learning from your experiences than having an open and honest conversation with yourself about why you fell short.

I was born in California and moved around a lot. When I was 17, I moved to Boston because my mom got a job there. The moment I went to Boston, everything just felt right and fell into place on how I wanted it to be.

Watching and learning from the great Josette Bushell-Mingo, who was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the time, and then to return to the same stage six months later playing a lead role, was incredible - I fell in love with the poetry and the breadth of the language so much that I didn't want it to end.

I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

My mom took me to a taekwondo class, and I fell in love. I was seven years old.

I still feel like that 17-year-old-kid that fell in love with country music, but I also am allowed to write songs about being a man, too, which I think is the coolest place I've ever been in my life.

One of the most enjoyable parts of the job is seeing a young fella who you give a debut to or you buy and see them progress.

That's where my vision lies and my passion lies, leaving the game in a better place for my fellow players than it was when I came in.

I just have always felt that people don't change, circumstances change.

I was really serious about being an actress. I was playing young female characters and not feeling very connected to them.

When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine side as well as my masculine.

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

I'm from the South; there's been such progress since I was young, with racism, with feminism. The environment is next.

I have grown up in an environment of equality, so feminism is equality for me.

Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.

At the beginning, I didn't want to arrive at a big team like Ferrari and say: 'Ok, I want the car like this' - I just wanted to try and adapt to the car and then see if I wanted to make some changes.

People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile.

I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow.

In the U.S., we were slow to evolve and build a festival capability.