Lester Holt Quotes

I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's your name?" "Um..." I don't know why I hesitate. But "Beatrice" just doesn't sound right anymore. "Think about it," he says, a faint smile curling his lips. " You don't get to pick again." A new place, a new name. I can be remade here. "Tris," I say firmly.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

I shall create a new world for myself.

The great thing about being a woman is the power of reinvention.

I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live in another land, in another place, and just get completely soaked up in another way of being. Could be in this country or another country, somewhere were you can be reborn a number of times not just creatively, but personally as well. I guess I want to go through life as more than one person.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

Stand up and walk out of your history

I'm shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

I'm a beginning, not an end.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.