Quotes About Discovery

I've never been one to try to find a niche for myself. I've always tried to wait and see what comes.

I think 'Nick and Norah' was a huge deal for me. It was my first foray into the studio world, and that character was such a gift.

One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.

Outside of Peruvian rap-rock, few genre tags raise eyebrows quite like the words 'Nigerian disco.'

I drive a different car every night.

A good night in is a series of documentaries.

It was when I met everybody on 'The Perfect Score' that, like, nightclubs became a thing.

David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.

I discovered that I was gay when I was about nine or ten. I did go out with girls for a while, but it didn't last.

If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing.

When I wrote my first novel - I was nineteen - I did it very quickly. If you write fast, you feel like you're entering something not yet familiar - a world rather than thoughts about the world.

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

I got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy and local. And so I started to realize that there were bands playing in my town, Anacortes.

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'

I remember my first actual intense breakout was when I was 13, and I no clue what to do because I hadn't dealt with anything in that large of a scale ever before.

I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.

When I was watching 'Sivaji,' I had no clue I will be a filmmaker; I had not even started making short films at that time.

There's no difference between science and science fiction.