Reinventing Quotes

• 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.

  Donny Osmond

  Stuff, Reinventing Yourself, Show Business

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• What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, youve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

  Michael Bay

  Thinking, Challenges, Directors

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• Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Silly, Moving, Play

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• Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.

  James Surowiecki

  Construction Workers, Cities, Matter

  "Creative Destruction?" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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  When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

  George Lopez

  Inspirational, Reinventing Yourself, Best Times

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• We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

  Ted Danson

  Responsibility, Organization, Victory

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• All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

  Athol Fugard

  Boxing, Finding Yourself, Shadow

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Needs, Alive, Reinventing Yourself

  Mireille Guiliano (2009). “Women, Work, and the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Children reinvent your world for you.

  Susan Sarandon

  Baby, Children, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just feel like I'm a part of a really cool group of ladies, really good actresses. And each of them kind of does it in their own way, but the character itself is such a great, strong lady that I like that they keep reinventing her.

  Erica Durance

  Strong, Character, Way

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• They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Reality, Honest, Sometimes

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• I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

  Nicolas Cage

  Want, Way, New Ways

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• We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

  Larry Wall

  Needs, Serious

  "State of the Onion 2000". www.perl.com. October 24, 2000.

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• Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Real, Teaching

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• As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.

  David Hammons

  Art, Artist, Reinventing Yourself

  "The Walker". Interview with Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. December 23, 2002.

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• We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

  Eckhard Pfeiffer

  Educational, Accountability, Needs

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• I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Here I Am, Goes On

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• I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

  Shakira

  People, Controversial, Periods

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• I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Art, Way, Possibility

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• Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Attitude, People

  Hugh Marlais Davies, Francis Bacon (2001). “Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953”, Museum of Contemporary Art San

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• Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.

  Orson Scott Card

  Block, Writing, Interesting

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• It is an incredibly hopeful experience watching communities come together and actually reassemble democracy. The democracy's been taken away from us. But they're reinventing democracy out there in rural Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in Pittsburgh.

  Josh Fox

  Taken, Philadelphia, Hopeful

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Teacher, Teaching, Wheels

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• It was Die Hard in my father's workshop. And so when that opportunity came up, the possibility of doing it, it's more the teenager in me who says that, 'I have to, of course I'm going to.' So that's the fun of reinventing, or just getting involved in things that really, actually loved as a kid growing up wanting to grow up to be a director.

  Len Wiseman

  Growing Up, Fun, Teenager

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Journey, Directors, Littles

  "Writer/Director Pawel Pawlikowski Talks IDA, Returning to Poland, His Visual Style, Shooting in Black in White, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 1, 2014.

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