Everyone thinks L. A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.
When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.
I think there are roles there; we just have to choose them. We have to fight for them.
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
I have a hyper personality.
I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off. . . As my friend Julius Lester says, A picture book is the essence of an experience.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is the measure of its riches: what you find in the present moment is according to the measure of your faith. Love also is the measure: the more the heart loves, the more it rejoices in what God provides. The will of God presents itself at each moment like an immense ocean that the desire of your heart cannot empty; yet you will drink from that ocean according to your faith and love.