“I think that since it’s prom, you should definitely wear a long dress. You can wear a short one anytime! This is the moment when you get to be a princess, and for me, that means a sweetheart neckline, long, then pouf – out and big.”

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

I’ve been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that’s all that matters.

I tend to have a lot of guy friends.

I’m not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.

I don’t really hashtag things. Unless I’m talking to somebody and I’m being funny and I say something mean but then I’m like, Hashtag…something that’s funny. I like to only hashtag funny things, not real stuff.

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I’ve known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

Acting isn’t a side thing – you have to live and breathe it.

I want people to look at my films and say ‘Wow, she’s a good actress’, and I know I’ll have to work hard for that.

I think everything about my life is magical. I’ve struggled, and against most odds, I’m truly having the experience of living my dreams.

I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful.

I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I’d like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

If someone is trying to bring you down, it only means you’re above them.

I was never a dancer before ‘Shake It Up’.

Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself!

The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.

The West would be well advised to change its approach towards failing states. At present, no major power can find the correct ways and means – and the numbers of failing states are increasing.

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe.