“It gets better. It gets so much easier to be in your skin no matter what size that skin is. If you do something that you're good at and that makes you happy, that's the best outlet that I could ever suggest to anybody....if you are able to just enjoy who you are, and if you can learn to love who you are, then you'll just be a much happier person.” IfsPersonsMatterAbleEnjoyEasierSkinsNo Matter WhatWho You AreSizeGet BetterOutletsMake You HappyIt Gets Better Author:Amanda Schull
“In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."” IfsSaidHappensSchoolEthicsHigh SchoolActressesQualifiedClassmates Author:Amanda Schull
“A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.” IfsYearsChildrenStillsMomentsBodyLastsTurnsCareersYour BodyDancerInjuryWaking Author:Amanda Schull
“For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsMayTwoReasonHomeBigsAbleFacesLeftKnow HowStudyFourStudentsChinaFour YearsOutrageVisa Author:Amanda Schull
“When I was in high school, my mom gave me a paperweight. It was when I was going through my 'not that interested in doing homework or really working on anything' phase and the paperweight said "If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes." And that's sort of the same thing, if you're not always working to be in the front.” IfsSaidSchoolViewsDogFrontsMomHigh SchoolMy MomPhasesNever ChangeHomeworkAlways Working Author:Amanda Schull
