Quotes About Growth

I'm certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and not always go after it from an autobiographical standpoint.

I think I've become a better storyteller over the years.

I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.

When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

Ever since I was introduced to Ekta Kapoor, I have learnt a great deal from her storytelling, and the learning continues.

The 'Homecoming King' show started off as a storytelling show that I had done; I worked with Greg Walloch to develop it and build it into something bigger.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's a wonderful moment. Parents should celebrate. 'Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!' All right! It calls for celebration.

As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling.

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.

I do think that sometimes, especially coming into this going straight from activism to being a candidate or to being a person who potentially, you know, looks like will be holding political office soon, I think we expect our politicians to be perfect and fully formed and on point on every single issue.

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

One of the most important aspects of what makes us who we are is neither straight genes or straight environment but actually what happens to us during development.

You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.

I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

The world is getting better, but not in a straight line.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down.

For us to dial back a little bit and have a little more straightforward, singalong appeal was a challenge. In order to do that, we had to throw away a lot of stuff.

I think it is only when you marry and become a parent that you begin to understand that life isn't always straightforward.