Quotes About Reinvention

I hate the phrase "former porn queen." That part of my life was a long time ago. Think of something else to call me.

Love and pride and a painful protective instinct crunch through her chest. Matthew and Phoebe are Lily's raison d'être. She knows why she wanted kids so badly. Having children is a hopeful, redemptive act. It's not only a literal reinvention of oneself, it's a way to reshape the idea of one's self.

This sense that the world can be reinvented [evokes] the Sixties in this country, those years when no one at all seemed to have any memory or mooring...

I don't think you get many chances to break the mold of who you are.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to... I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

Hacks didn't destroy, they just...creatively amended.

I'm Shelly Framington. But call me Sarah. I don't like who Shelly was, what she did.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

When you can't dunk anymore, you have to find a way to make it into the news.

When I get a role similar to the ones I have played earlier, I try to do something different with the part.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

I'm not the entertainer anymore.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

Think about your organization – or that of one of your clients – and ask yourself whether things would be done differently if it was being launched today.

before I was going to college, my secret plan was to one day not tell anybody and just get on some bus to some random city and just move there and become this totally different person. - Then what? - ...and not come back until I had totally become this person... I used to think about it all the time... - I don't get it... - That's because you don't uterlly loathe yourself

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

The problem with shooting in Paris is, it's been shot to death. When you're in it, you already think you're in a movie, so how do you get away from that feeling, and give some frisson to the viewer?

I hope viewers see me as an actor who always strives to try new characters and reinvent myself.

Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one. (from Vanishing Acts)

Fortunes were like clay, and could be reshaped at any time.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.