Quotes About Transition

I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.

There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.

An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

I've never used a foam pit or an air bag before. I learned my tricks over time, and double corks have been a slow transition in my pipe riding.

When I came to Mumbai from Dubai to become an actor, I used to entertain people at parties by showing some card tricks.

Going from dialogue-driven 'New Tricks' to a movie like 'The Machine' which has special effects has been brilliant.

The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.

Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.

A kid actor to an adult actor is a tricky one.

It is such a tricky transition between education and work.

I tried to - I wanted to work at Blockbuster.

I tried in '71 to relax. I thought I gave my farewell tour.

It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to film school, and tried to be like my heroes, like, Spike Lee and Hal Hartly.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

Coach K tried to implement a style where we passing, moving the ball, the open guy gets the open shot, running in transition.

I was just coming out of prison, I was married, and I had a kid, and I didn't know what to do, so I tried stand-up.

I felt so ashamed of my modeling history when I first got into acting, so I tried to hide that part of my life, because I didn't want to be looked at as too sexy for a role.

It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

While Saudi Arabia tries to usher in the post-oil era, its citizens struggle to adjust to a more diversified capitalist society.