Change of Scene Quotes

In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.

I love Cleveland; I'll always want to fight there. But there's a lot going on in New York. I'd like to go somewhere I'm not known as well.

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

I just needed to leave Hollywood.

I left New York after my mother died and, rather aimlessly, had settled in Istanbul for a change of scene. It was a rather dramatic gesture on my part, since I'd lived in New York for 20 years, but I felt I needed something different - the escalating expense and pressure of New York had begun to weary me.

I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.

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

I definitely felt the desire to, like - I definitely knew there was an elsewhere. I definitely knew that, like, if I were going to be free, I needed to be away from, kind of, like, Nashville and kind of get out of the South and get out of the country.

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

Delhi was not completely a new place for me, but as a political worker, it was a new place.

I chose City because of the huge interest in me. Sevilla hadn't won a trophy for a couple of years, so it was a good moment to leave.

It is always difficult to leave your mates and your club in the middle of the season for another competition.

It's always special to come to a new club.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.