Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
We all fall sometime but it's those that get back up and try again that make the difference.
Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.
Never give up too quickly, but know when to let go.
I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.
When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
You see, the thing is, if you don't do anything to your face, and you get old, and you can stand up, and you can remember your lines, the work is there.
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
