Quotes About Transition

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.

I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy.

Actually going to the supermarket to get my own groceries was a revelation. I'd never had to fill the fridge before, do my laundry, put petrol in my car. It was scary - but there was a kind of joy about it, too.

It wasn't very easy getting used to being famous. Everybody stared at me in the supermarket and on the street. I think my life changed, for sure.

With the whole supermodel thing, even when you're not really modeling anymore, people still call me that. And I'm like '... retired.'

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

You're told to look good and to show Tupperware, and that was my job. Coming from that to being, like, 'Oh my God, you're a superstar' - it's almost overnight, and it's overwhelming beyond belief.

Being a WWE Superstar, you have - I don't want to say a short shelf life, but it's more like sometimes you've got to look to the future and you've gotta plan ahead. It's not gonna last forever.

Most of the time, with artists like me who go on to become superstars, you never see them when they are still lost and trying to figure life out.

I haven't been really superstitious once I left baseball, actually.

Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

I look at what we have - our traditional natural resource base - as helping move us to that cleaner, more diverse energy supply.

Some challenges remain, but the bottom line is that low-carbon options can and should play a much greater role in energy supply.

I used to work full time in an office, hiding away in my desk. Now, I have the opportunity to do something I love. And every day is a dream come true for me. I'm just generally grateful for all the love and support, and I will continue to give my 101 percent.

For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.

The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.

In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called 'Gilda Defying Gravity,' and I did it on the Lower East Side. It was great; people really came out and supported me.

I never really supported anyone when I was younger, but I'm an Evertonian now.

In 2005, not long after I met Matt, MTV decided not to renew my contract. It meant that I didn't have a job or any money. We lived together and he supported me because I had nothing.