Quotes About Progress

We have to build that African-American offensive coordinator/quarterback coach that is going to be a head coach. I think that's our job as head coaches - to find those guys.

Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

I was offered 10-12 films during the time that we were working on 'Paani.'

As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major blockbuster films.

I have been fortunate enough to be offered characters and projects that challenge me and that are different from the characters that I have played.

I went from auditioning for roles to being offered films directly.

When you're starting out in this business, it's very easy to want to say yes to everything that's offered to you.

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

A lot of people who are in charge in Hollywood are women, so they have the power. Now, I've met a lot of these amazing women who are offering opportunities to other women, and they're awesome. But for the women who maybe haven't done that yet, it's like, why?

Because of what I did in Punjabi cinema, I have got offers in Bollywood.

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.

I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me, and a book doing well is important because it buys you another one. Not because of the money but if you keep doing interesting work, work that people like, they will want you to do more, and offers that are interesting come in.

Post-'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety,' now there are more opportunities for me in terms of films. I'm getting offers from the makers I always wanted to work with.

For Modi, India offers a great opportunity for development with excellent natural and human resources.

A lot of fighters are counted out after a loss, and it's really what you do afterward that offers an explanation to your career.

Science offers the chance to cure debilitating and once-intractable disorders like hemophilia and sickle cell disease. But we need to make sure the ability to access these therapies, or the risk that someone can be locked out of them, doesn't widen gaps between the rich and poor.

I was doing a show in Bridgeport, Conn., and getting offers for more money from Boston and other cities in the east. But I figured I would hold out for New York. Then one day, I got a call out of the blue from Hollywood from KNX.

After 'Mohabbatein', I had many offers and I met many people but I am always searching for that one script which would take me that one step ahead.

Here's the thing: every office I've run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.