Quotes About Transition

I'm not switching from Bollywood to the Malayalam film industry.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

I was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and we lived there for three to five years - with my mother and father. And then they divorced and she came back to America.

I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.

The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.

When I was 17, I moved to Sydney to study set design at NIDA.

I spent my first five years in Canberra then moved to Sydney, where I moved around the Hills District until the age of 18.

I am trying to get used to living in Sydney and it is not really happening so I might have to get a house in Adelaide somewhere.

I just feel a bit out of my depth in Sydney.

I'm living in Sydney now - but you know when you've grown up in a certain place and you end up living in another, you never really quite feel like it's home. You feel like a bit of an impostor. I feel like I'm in a place that's moving faster than I can swim.

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.

Despite the frequent use of coal miners as a potent political symbol, coal jobs are disappearing - and they're not coming back.

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.

I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

A door handle is very symbolic to me. It is the first object that one will interact with before entering a new space.

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

From the end spring new beginnings.

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

I had a pretty rough life. I got caught up in the star syndrome. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's something that I'm glad is over.

Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.

Not just for tissue-holding folks, the empty nest syndrome is so pervasive, it can take over the most headstrong of parents.