Quotes About Evolution

You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the beginning of Le Tigre. I felt people were like, 'You're not angry enough anymore.' People still ask me that. 'Are you still angry?' I'm like, 'About what? About that question? Yes.'

When you look at me in the beginning of '96 and at the end of '96, I'm two different people.

My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

I don't feel the same pressure to be perfect up there that I did in the beginning.

We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.

We were pretty crappy in the beginning. We really didn't sound that great.

In the beginning, it was technology, and it was fun, and then it turned to politics, and it's been changing so many people's lives. We didn't realize that to begin with.

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few seconds out of water. That's how evolution works. Spectrally. We are all mermaids.

We can't look for greatness in the past.

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.

I don't live in the past.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to people, that makes me cringe.

Aleister Black - we've battled in the past, across the world. I've enjoyed his build, to watch his evolution as well.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.