Quotes About Transformation

My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.

We will continue to renew and redefine Sony Pictures.

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Robin hasn't got a big nose - but I can soon arrange that.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

There are some who expect every game to make a dramatic change the way that 'Resident Evil 4' did over its predecessors. And for that series I think the change was fantastic and completely necessary. I honestly think it should have happened much sooner than it did. But that kind of change is not necessary for every game.

I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.

It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

If you watch my game, freshman year to sophomore year, I was a different player.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.

I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

It must have been horrible for my parents to see me go from public school to comprehensive to detention centre to borstal. I was busy ploughing my own furrow, but I must have been a terrible worry to them, and for that I am sorry.

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

My grandparents bowed to the Americans and sought to learn from them. My parents sought to be them.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Some good Karma I must have done that I went from marriage from Hell to finding my real soul mate.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how to deal with the darkness that seeps into their souls.

I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.