Quotes About Reinvention

There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.

So that's how she lived with it. She did it the way so many people lived with their regrets and mistakes. They simply rewrote their stories. Her mother had re-created herself as a devoted mother: as if ballet had been her daughter's favorite extracurricular activity, not her own obsession.

She might have lost a husband, but she'd got herself a wife. An efficient, energetic young wife. What a bargain. What an upgrade.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

Im a new song and youre just a remix.

Capitalism continually renews and reinvents itself. This helps us to understand the fact that despite its severe internal contradictions, contradictions that Marx anticipated would bring about the ultimate collapse of capitalism, the capitalist system has managed to remain vibrant over the centuries.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.

Sometimes you have to go and do something different. I'll just disappear and write a couple of books, and then go back and do some TV when I've been forgotten about, and people think it's fresh. I see people who suddenly put themselves around everywhere and I think, 'You're going to last for about two years and vanish.'

Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

I've always been a big fan of taking old songs and completely turning them on their head. Having no adherence to the fine tradition of the original version. Rearranging them and taking a different approach to them.

I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.

It's better if a singer disconnects from the original and brings something new to the version.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

Girls today, Judy Pressman had told her. They act like they're the first ones to have done any of this. They've got to reinvent the wheel, and make everything ten times harder than it has to be.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you

After losing you job, you have to sit, relax and discover yourself

Losing your job gives you the material from which life is made

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.