Quotes About Transition

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

I was 11 years old, and I had been playing classical piano for three years, and suddenly the guitar came and landed in my arms. I fell in love with that instrument, and I still love it today. I love it so much.

I only went to college for one semester, community college outside of Dallas. I got to the end of that and said, 'I'm not doing this anymore,' and moved to L.A. and landed a job.

I'm fortunate I landed on my feet in Washington.

I lived for a little while in a place where the kitchen was a cupboard on the landing.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.

I'm meeting people I never would have met at Brown and doing things I couldn't do because of basketball.

I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could.

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

At 17 I was graduating and didn't know what to do. I was seriously contemplating going to Melbourne to play Aussie football.

I played piano for cabaret stars and stuff and then eventually moved from my hometown of Perth in Western Australia to Melbourne, and somewhere in there, I decided to book myself a room and do a cabaret show of my own material.

I have a confession to make: my name is Melissa Leong and I am a former food blogger.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening years, I moved into the 1 percent.

I'd had it as a member of a group. I sang with the Moonglows for two years, and that was enough.

The NRA was run like an old-time club when I took over. We were in the red and getting cut off from our membership.

After 43 years of membership, exiting the E.U. was never going to be easy.

When I left rugby and bought my first commercial gym membership it was a shock to the system. I went in there and saw people training and thought 'I've got to get out of here and get in a proper gym.'

What better time to write a memoir than the big 3-0?

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon as possible because I knew adults were generally more contained in their cruelty.

I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant.