I'm really low maintenance for a girl. I pretty much shower, attempt to fix my hair, throw on some mineral make up, and go.
I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.
If you do not like how things are going, think in new ways, create new solutions and do not even think about giving up!
There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.
If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.
Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.
I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.
In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.
I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.
I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.
If you go up HUMBLED, you'll come down PROUD. But if you go up PROUDLY you'll come down HUMBLED.
The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
