Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

What if the only resolution you made was to love yourself more?

Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.

I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.

Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

When in doubt, start from the top. -Jason Grace

You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.