Quotes About Transformation

While I don't necessarily believe the cliche that 'everything happens for a reason,' I do believe that every encounter, every situation, and every challenge I've experienced has shaped me into the woman I am today. And I am proud to say that I have never backed down from life's challenges.

I like artists that tend to be more interested in reinventing themselves, in experimenting.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

I don't consider myself a fighter first any more like I used to,' he explained. 'I was all fight, all fight. And then I met my wife and basically shortly after I was going to church, things like that. Before you know it I was baptized. I accepted Christ as my lord and saviour. And things really changed.

'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

My awkward stage extended well into high school.

I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.

To see the difference between when I came to Britain in 1955 with what it is today, to see how the sub-continent has been embraced, it is quite extraordinary.

You want to make movies about extraordinary people, but those extraordinary people have to have a huge journey.

Ending extreme poverty is possible.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

I reinvented eyebrows.

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.

My goal is to make it so that the situation which we see at every election - the same candidates, the same faces... to turn the situation around and completely change it.

For me, there's life before and after facial hair, so that's how I look at everything.

At 16, I was facing 11 life felonies.

By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.

I got tired of going to the barber to keep my fade together, so I just cut it all off.

Obviously, I believe that Rahm Emanuel's leadership has failed. Obviously, I believe we need change.