Quotes About Transition

Instapaper needs a new home where it can be staffed and grown.

My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.

I think I may have become a grown man.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I feel like 2012 was the first year I actually felt like a grown-up.

We had to think about what the fans and the public would want to see from a grown-up 2PM.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Everybody grows up.

Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

I used to be grumpy. I am no more. I am old now. See my grey beards.

No, there will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis - I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you.

The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.

As you get a changing of the guard in Washington D.C., with different people from different sectors, you'll start to break through the gridlock.

In college, playing the two guard, I found a way to get drafted.

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

When I got out of the Marine Corps, I didn't have much guidance.

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

I have a collection of ukuleles. I meant to graduate to the guitar, but I never did.