Quotes About Reinvention

What I need is a new story about who I am. What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.

When you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trash can, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

But if you truly want to reinvent your life, you're going to have to learn to say yes. Even if it feels selfish. Or scary.

The world, Left Coasters insisted, can be easily and frequently reinvented.

People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities.

Three months, I thought. In idle moments, I retreated into that early-summer dream of reinvention, when you set your eyes on September and that refurbished self you were going to tool around in, honking the horn so people would take notice...

I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

The magickian learns that his or her life is nothing more than a story, usually written by authority figures in his or her life. The magickian's task then becomes to take up the magickal tools of pen and paper and to take the job of 'author' away from 'authority' and to re-write his or her life.

You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.

Poetry is never abandoned, it is only remixed.

Let's have some new clichés!

That was my first real experience at feeling set apart. Not only did I not knock them dead, but rather it was I that died...acutely aware of being mutton dressed up as lamb. I exchanged my white tie and tails for a white waiter's jacket and got back to my proper calling!

Have the strength to start over again." Live a life you're proud of. Because it's never too late to be whoever you want to be.

What we did in the last month, last year, even in childhood, shouldn't deny us the chance of reinvention

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

When Wes has a new a project, you know that it's going to be something as different as the previous was from the previous one. Each time, he tries to take you to a country, or a land that is unknown for you and for him, and reinvent this land. That's what he did with 'Darjeeling,' with 'Mr. Fox,' with 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self.

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.

We in America believe in starting over - and over and over.

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.

Our show is about starting over.