#inventing

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. ↗

— John le Carre

#good #had #invent #inventing #invents

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

#another #being #business #chance #dramatic

I was always inventing characters and making up stories. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#characters #i #inventing #making #making up

Man keeps inventing things all the time. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#keeps #man #things #time

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#arguing #dancing #drinking #holding #inventing

To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie? ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#characters #compelling #creative #energy #enough

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. ↗

— Jonathan Gilbert

#result #right #right thing #sometimes #the right thing

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself. ↗

— Gary Allan

#keep #need #new #reinventing #something

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #continue #democracy #european #finding