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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation. -- Denzel Washington
I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday. -- K. J. Bishop
The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy -- Brock Chisholm
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. -- Penelope Lively
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms. -- Imre Lakatos
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
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I find fun. -- Douglas Adams
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity. -- Toni Morrison
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Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable. -- David Mitchell

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