Quotes About Transformation

I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing before, but then it was something. So I became one.

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.

If the pace of change outside is moving more quickly than the pace of change inside, you get a bit left behind.

A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack.

When a comedian can turn hero and has the will power to work out for a six pack, he can easily fit into the director's scheme of things.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

People told me that I was the best-looking girl in my college. But it was only after I won a beauty pageant in 2002 that I became confident.

When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth.

I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.

The process of really changing your skin is painful and difficult and endless. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

I think that we'll see the concept of 'genre' continue to die a slow and painful death.

All painful events have a purpose, and mine has made my life what it is today.

Life is about growth and that is sometimes painful.

I constantly modify myself. There are downfalls to that because you are constantly trying to figure out who you are, but at the same time, I'm blessed with the lack of base paint on the canvas.

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

If it were my decision, I'd knock the Superdome down. If I couldn't knock it down, I'd just open the roof and gut the whole inside - totally modernize it. If you just dust it off and paint a little bit but don't reimage it, the legacy will be horrible.

In computing, everything happens inside this rectangular screen. I want to get the pixels out, paint the world, and allow us to interact with it.

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

I used to paint.

It's like suddenly the canvas of my life has been cleared, and a completely new picture is painted. That's how I've been feeling ever since 'Sacred Games' was streamed.