Remake Yourself Quotes

#1. You panic and you rage, then this calm settles over you, and you remake yourself.

Vendela Vida

#2. Sometimes," my grandfather put in, "even if you can't be what you want, making the most of what you can be isn't a bad second choice. You have a chance to remake yourself, baby girl.

Chloe Neill

#3. You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn't get found. It emerges.

Reid Hoffman

#4. Forgetting ... is a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself ... For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#5. I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing ... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.

Spike Lee

#6. My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

#7. What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies ... Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

E.L. Doctorow

#8. Before he can remake his society, his society must make him.

Herbert Spencer

#9. No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.

Rob Zombie

#10. Anything is possible with a parent. Parents are gods. They make us and they destroy us. They warp the world and remake it in their own shape, and that's the world we know forever after. It's the only world. We can't see what it might have looked like otherwise.

David Vann

#11. If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

Liev Schreiber

#12. I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Michael Caine

#13. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#14. Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Toni Morrison

#15. The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#16. Lincoln did not admire those who think it is a mark of sophistication to sneer at patriotism. He believed that God has a will for a country and that is honest man should rejoice in the effort to try to remake his country after the Divine pattern, insofar as that pattern is revealed to him.

Elton Trueblood

#17. It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Will Durant

#18. I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.

Justin Vernon

#19. I'm sick of remakes, how about something different. That's the thing - people always come to me and are like 'what do you want to remake, we know we can get that greenlight, what do you want to make?' I don't want to remake a g-d damn focking think.

Rob Zombie

#20. Nobody wants to make a bad 'Flight of the Navigator' remake. There's just no interest. We're going to do it if it's good.

Colin Trevorrow

#21. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

David Harvey

#22. I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

Graydon Carter

#23. Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.

Mary Stewart

#24. The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.

Simon Schama

#25. How much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

Jan Struther

#26. We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

Joel Kinnaman

#27. Good luck with that, I said. Because seriously. The fuck? Strawberry social? Did I somehow move onto the set of the remake of Little House on the Prairie?

Susan Juby

#28. Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy .

Colin Farrell

#29. It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

Andrew Bird

#30. Walking this road without you to remake forgotten promises

Tetsuya Nomura

#31. We are so busy working on God, we forget He is trying to work on us. That is what this life is all about: God at work on us, trying to remake us into vessels of glory. We are so busy praying to change things that we have little time to allow prayer to change us.

David Wilkerson

#32. At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

Clint Eastwood

#33. I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

Jonathan Demme

#34. Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Stuart Chase

#35. I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

Steven Soderbergh

#36. I'd love to do a superhero movie, like a remake of Wonder Woman.

Alessandra Torresani

#37. If Wolf Blitzer goes through his entire career on air without crying, I think that'll be the time to greenlight the remake of 'Never Cry Wolf.

Gregor Collins

#38. I want to remake the whole world; anything less is not worth the trouble.

Karen Cushman