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“Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.”

Persons Self Reason Culture Novel Essentials Behavior Projects Obvious Criminals Crucial Linked Reinvention Tropes

Author:Luc Sante

“The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to that. I didn't want to do that. But what I did want to do was have a real look at the adventure genre because I thought it was ripe for reinvention.”

Way Want Looks Said Book Real Wanted Three Adventure Genre Straightforward Ripe Reinvention Musketeers Three Musketeers

Author:Adrian Hodges

“At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.”

Ifs Knows Want Mind Looks Past Our Lives Circumstances Fruit Our Future Architect Our Past Your Future Your Past Crossroads Reinvention

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“The link between Vreeland and Guggenheim is their mutual sense of reinvention and transformation. That made something click inside of me as I too reinvented myself when I began writing the book on Diana Vreeland .”

Writing Made Book Transformation Mutual Links Clicks Diana Reinvention

Author:Lisa Immordino Vreeland

“"Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary.”

Fit Vocabulary Reinvention

Author:George W. Bush

“Reinvention means you're kind of re-creating somebody. Well, I'm the same person, in terms of values. My priorities - my faith, my family, my friends, the values of personal responsibility and universality of freedom, and "to whom much is given, much is required" - haven't changed [since presidency].”

Wells Kind Mean Persons Values Given Term Responsibility Havens Changed Creating My Friends My Family Priorities Presidency Personal Responsibility Universality Reinvention

Author:George W. Bush

“That's what leads to a reinvention of yourself - being fully present and in the moment.”

Moments Reinvention

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.”

People Different Life Changing Stripes Reinvention

Author:Jane Pauley

“What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.”

People Inspirational Needs Faith Impossible Teaching Positive Thinking Impossibility Impossible Things Reinvention Possible And Impossible

Book:On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose

Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose

“The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.”

Ideas Bizarre Reinvention

Author:Robert Smith

“The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.”

Seems Desire Company Core Arise Sirens Synergy Reinvention

Author:James Surowiecki

“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”

Thinking Feels Mean Art Pain Science Nature Compassion Mystery Subjects Cures Terrified Viewpoints Reinvention Science Love

Book:Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated

Source: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”

Ifs Moments Inspiration Motivational Waiting Business Ready Helpful Procrastination Reinvention

Book:The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Virgin soil

Source: The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Virgin soil

“There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.”

War Reinvention

Author:Salman Rushdie

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

“The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.”

Ifs World Littles Reality Seems Would Be Form Shapes Stones Distance Endless Fascinating Concrete Shifting Relentless Fluid Hurrying Reinvention

Author:Mark Doty

“It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.”

People Looks Challenges Transformation One Word Predictable Chameleon New Challenges Reinvention People Can Change

Author:Naomi Campbell

“When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.”

Source: Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style

“I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con.”

Mean Fashion Passionate Comic Geek Radar Reinvention Comic Con Love Fashion

Author:Kristen Bell

“I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.”

Thinking Knows Character Young Guy Casts Los Angeles Mature Just Being Reinvention Impressionable

Author:Chris O'Donnell

“Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top of a vertical hierarchy. To be an artist is to suffer and to lead a life without shelter. It takes a great amount of daring-do, self reinvention, imagination, familial loyalty, sacrifice, economic uncertainty, and the right to be wrong, the right to fail in order to achieve something of noticeable value.”

Wells Self Artist Suffering Values Order Imagination Failing Sacrifice Economic Achieve Amount Definitions Loyalty Uncertainty Daring Shelter Hierarchy Vertical Reinvention

Author:Van Dyke Parks

“I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.”

Stills Order Chaos Reinvention

Author:John le Carre

“Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.”

Thinking Persons Sometimes Music Wonderful Musician Notes Guitar Excellent Idols Frank Vans Rock Music Guitarist Reinvention Van Halen Zappa

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

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

Language Fashion Communication Display Reinvention

Book:A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging

Source: A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging

“Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.”

Wheels Reinvention Unix

Author:Larry Wall

“If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind”

Ifs Knows Want Mind Looks Reinvention

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.”

Should Wells Enough Able Knowing Design Roots Designer Graphic Graphic Design Plagiarism Reinvention Graphic Designer

Author:Steven Heller

“I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.”

Able Critical Honored Reinvention Juncture

Author:Edward Whitacre, Jr.

“The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps”

Mean Inspiration Edges Daily Life Maps March Life Means Reinvention

Book:The Abolition of Work and Other Essays

Source: The Abolition of Work and Other Essays

“December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.”

People Opportunity Century Unique Renewal Renaissance December Reinvention Unique Opportunities

Author:Alberto Villoldo

“Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.”

Giving Awareness Produce Birth Reinvention

Book:Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation

Source: Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation

“Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.”

Inspirational Mother Fearlessness Reinvention

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.”

Needs Writing Reality Law Literature Women Break Criminals Novelists Presenting Preventing Essayists Reinvention Breaking The Law

Author:Kathy Acker

“My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.”

Feelings Enthusiasm Reinvention

Author:Roger Daltrey

“I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals.”

States Philosophy Politics Belief Love Is Proud Ideals Conservative Perpetual Reinvention New Words Unapologetic

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.”

Thinking World Changed Television Series Reinvention American Television

Author:Julian Fellowes

“I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.”

Feels Ends Form Night Song Watches Feet Sitting Caring Every Night Presenting Sitting Down Reinvention

Author:Bryan Adams

“There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.”

Thinking Wells Different Shows America Bits Patterns British Hybrid Reinvention Torchwood

Author:Bill Pullman

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