Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise..

Nowadays, particularly in the United States, if you meet someone at the bottom of society, they may unkindly be described as a "loser." There's a real difference between an unfortunate and a loser, and that shows 400 years of evolution in society and our belief in who is responsible for our lives. It's no longer the gods, it's us. We're in the driving seat.

当还不会演戏时我被叫去演戏，当还不会唱歌时我被要求唱“Funny Face”，当还不会跳舞时我被要求与弗雷德·阿斯坦跳舞——所有的这些的事我都从来没有准备过。所以我非常努力地去适应学习这些事物。

Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.'