Quotes About Reinvention

The idea is to grow. There is a shelf life for every avatar and the nature of roles will change and one just has to keep doing different things.

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

I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.

At Harman, we had to reinvent ourselves so that we can compete on a global playing field. We did it by instituting a culture where teams can take calculated risks. But to inspire such a shift in mindset requires meaningful rewards across the ranks and freedom to experiment and innovate. I like to think of it as our courage culture.

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture.

I've had to sink my teeth into a role that was probably a fried-chicken dinner and make it into a filet mignon.

The first dumb idea was to do it at all - to take 'Fargo,' this beloved classic, and turn it into a television show. The second dumb idea, when you do it and it works, was to throw everything out and start again.

A loose generalization would have it that creation and destruction go hand in hand. But my destruction takes the form of trying to make an old story work, for instance having almost to destroy the old story to tell it anew. The Odyssey is an oldie. Which I try to tell on dry land, so to speak, in The Studhorse Man. You see, the old stories, instead of illuminating the world, sometimes stop us from seeing it. It's like a pair of glasses that don't quite fit any longer.

all possibility requires hard work, regular reinvention and a dedication as deep as the sea to leaving our harbors of safety, daily.

Tal vez había llegado la hora de reinventar mi destino

Society has sold us a series of mistruths," The Spellbinder continued. "That pleasure is preferable to the terrifying yet majestic fact that all possibility requires hard work, regular reinvention and a dedication as deep as the sea to leaving our harbors of safety, daily.

Hamilton's life was so tumultuous that only an audacious novelist could have dreamed it up. He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.

The citizens rise and wash, shave and brush. They don stockings and dresses, pants, shirts, and suspenders. They button up their need. Affix their aspirations. Tuck histories neatly inside drawers, creating themselves as they go, a rhapsody of reinvention.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

Simply remembering that corporations were invented should alone empower us to reinvent them to our liking.

You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

I call it the Etch A Sketch life. Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

allowed themselves to reinhabit themselves

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

Tu avais raison, lui dit-elle, l'Elgolie n'existe pas. Pas comme je le croyais, en tout cas. Mais je n'ai renoncé à rien. J'ai décidé de faire de la Galnicie une sorte d'Elgolie à ma façon. Qu'en penses-tu ? — Te connaissant, répondit Filomène avec un large sourire, je pense... que tu es parfaitement capable d'y arriver, Princetta !

Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films.