Quotes About Renewal

Never underestimate the power of a fresh coat of white paint.

Every time you make a film, you want to do it in a genre that is different from your previous film, so that there is something fresh about it.

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

I want to try out La Liga once more, as I didn't get to play much the previous time.

How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me.

How do I feel when I look back at prior work? Hmmm. I think, 'I tried to do the best I could do. It's not perfect. It will never be perfect.' And then I think, 'I want to try again.'

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then you get to buy new ones.

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process.

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

Every time you get in shape for a role, there's a different way to do it so it doesn't get boring.

I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

I've always had a saying, 'Change is good.' I don't shy away from it, I embrace it. Make the most out of everything. Sometimes change is a blessing in disguise.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

I always need to get away from whatever it is I've just finished, to feel a distance from it.

I think it's good for people sometimes to get out of their own environments - there are less distractions.

If you feel a bit aggrieved or hard done by, you probably need the break just to reset yourself and give yourself time for different learning - to get out there and experience different things.