Paving the Way Quotes

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

What I'm trying to do is reinvent what the face of a champion looks like. I'm out there trying to represent for the people who question whether they can become a champion or not.

The only way to honor Steve and his legacy and everything he lived for was to try to continue his work and expand on it.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

There is never any precedent until it happens for the first time.

Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

Trixie Mattel has always opened doors for me. It's closed very few.

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

It's not easy being a female guitar player. You have to believe in yourself.

I've always wanted to know what it's like to be the first to do something.

After I turned producer, people asked me, 'Why are you taking up production? You are still so young and doing well.' Just because an actress decides to make movies, do people assume that her career is not going well?

There had never really been a female that was breaking down a swing. So when I'd walk into a clubhouse, I'd have to explain a little bit of who I was.

What I have done here no one has done before.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

I didn't want to be one of the 10,000 kids on the internet making beats. I went out there and got recognized as the white boy in trap music and made a name for myself.

When you're a background singer, you're there to support the artist. The transition is up to the person. You have to follow your heart. You make life decisions that will affect what you really want to do. You put that kind of energy out, and you put it out aggressively. And if you work hard, you'll pave the way.

I think for women especially, writing and creating your own role, producing, directing - having some control over what you do is really important. We can pave the way for other women to send what messages they want sent.

I've accepted loads of criticism and sacrificed so much money to do what I wanted to do - which, in a very small way, contributed to making things easy for my kind of actors.

My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

No one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already what would have been considered an old timer.

I do not think of myself as a standard bearer for Asian players. I just try to work hard for myself.

To be the first person to do anything, you're a legend.

I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.