Quotes About Transition

I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.

I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

Even as I experience the low of ending my military career, I have also experienced the loving support of tens of thousands of Americans.

It's sad to see boxers sometimes when they've come from these massive highs with thousands of people screaming for them. They're the best at what they do - then, that's it: stopped, finished.

I used to play music at home, and now I'm playing for thousands of people.

In showbiz one minute you're up there making thousands of people laugh, next minute you're picking up toffees, you know it's real life.

The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's the thing. They have to.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher!

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

Change is not threatening.

Writers are always sort of threatening to direct, and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

People seek change not only when threats and opportunities appear, but when we get tired of the ways things are.

I was on bed rest because of a fracture for about three months. 'Kabir Singh' happened immediately after that. So it was a good way to get back to work after a break.

I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren't going to be left in the field, so they were sold.

When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.

After selling the business, and the Patrick Cox brand in 2007, I had a three-year non-compete, where I just spent a lot of time hanging all over the world on beaches and having fun.

I moved to London when I was 19 and went to a three-year drama-and-conservatory training. I lived there for almost ten years.

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.