Quotes About Transition

I knew I was Yoruba and Nigerian for the first 9 years of my life. I did not become conscious of my color and all that came with it until I moved to the United States with my family.

I got a job as a coat check girl at a nightclub - this was in my first few months of being in L.A.

David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.

The party life that had once given me so much confidence and comfort had turned into a nightmare where I never felt more alone.

There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.

Anytime you can start the season off with a new organization and see all the work they put in - guys in the shop that I don't even know are working late nights.

I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine.

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.

When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you as someone else.

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

When EA acquired Bullfrog there were, like, 35 people, and within nine months there were 200. And any feeling of culture and inventiveness was diluted by that.

When I was nineteen, I moved to L.A.

'Ninth House' is my first book for adults.

I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9' to 6'8'.

I didn't play JV because I went straight to varsity and started as a 10th grader - that was back in the day when you could not play varsity as a ninth grader. I went right from playing junior high football to varsity.

If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.

A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time.

I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just focused more on myself and gave up music for a while.