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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos. Walter Kirn
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I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species. George C. Williams
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In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book. Susan Minot
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Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed. Ellen Key
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I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark'... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet. Neil Marshall
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This new adaptation to our present policy just fine-tunes it a little more on what clothing air marshals can wear to blend in. Brian Doyle
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As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.' Paul Tonko
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I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen. Cassandra Clare
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Ultimately, industry adaptation is helped by higher crude, insofar as fares will continue moving higher, labor costs lower, and at some point even the most stubborn (airlines) may see the need to decelerate.
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You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me. Issa Rae
almost people stuff time
I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it.
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By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked how old I was. They almost fainted when I said 33. Isabella Rossellini
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I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending. Cory Doctorow
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Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that? Rick Perlstein
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It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.
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The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science. Richard P. Feynman
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All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader. Robert Teeter
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We're not changing anything. We've assigned the world's best referee, Joe Cortez, for the rematch. We'll take the same safety precautions we always take.
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We're not changing anything, ... We've assigned the world's best referee, Joe Cortez, for the rematch. We'll take the same safety precautions we always take.
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Mr. Swope never would overrule a man to whom he'd assigned a job.
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One person might be assigned to her but our whole team has to guard to her. It's going to be guarding by committee. Sidney Spencer
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Occupations and resultant attitudes have been assigned to the various stages of human life. Sathya Baba
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No one should be denied housing because they require a guide dog, an assigned parking space or some other reasonable accommodation because of a disability.
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More times than I care to remember I have sympathized with too many of them assigned like myself, to some of the world's royal bad places. Christiane Amanpour
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My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin. Matthew Pearl
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From the very beginning, this redistricting has been about racial balance. Should children be assigned to schools based on skin color? That decision was made early on in this process.
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Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. Alexandra Fuller
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I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
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Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
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I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading. Malorie Blackman
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten again. That you who read this book will feel as I do that these 120 pages ... should be required reading for all humanity. Oprah Winfrey
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Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man
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Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count.
books skilled
Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.
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Let him put more cards on the table -- and we shall respond accordingly. Jiang Zemin
cards moved
Many of those fixed-rate cards haven't moved at all this year.
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Many retailers do not disclose these restrictions. There are no national rules dealing with how gift cards should work. Joe Barton
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Seven yellow cards is the most we had in a game all season. I think it a game like this with the state playoffs at stake, emotions run high.
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Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd. Dan Jones
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Send your cards and letters to Jim Ryan, care of CBS 2. Dave Price
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One should play fairly when one has the winning cards Oscar Wilde
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My dad would always tell me to hold my cards closer to my chest, but I do think we have a chance to be an excellent football team. Joe Glenn
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My girls play with so much heart. They love being on the court together and it showed. It wasn't in the cards for us tonight.
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Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was. Peter Fonda
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I lost my footing on the deck and I literally somersaulted over the rail, hitting my head on the side of the boat, landing in the water.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book. Bear Grylls
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We're in a situation because of the ways the squads are restricted it makes it difficult, so we need all players on deck who can perform.
deck shuffle
You can shuffle my deck any day! Bruce Forsyth
deck outdoor
I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also. Micky Ward
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I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it's the way to see the world and get paid for it.
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He has a player's attitude. He has the same intensity as a player. He's intense on the pool deck and he's intense in the office. We feel it in the huddle.
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Our goal was to win the series and at worst tie. It's disappointing. We've got to find a way to turn this around and get off the deck and get ready for the weekend.
thoughts
My first thoughts were we need a new arena.
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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. Edgar Allan Poe
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Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
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A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
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We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion. David J. C. MacKay
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Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.
works
My latest works are these things with light bulbs. Jim Hodges
works
If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around. Frank Thomas
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating. Val McDermid
works
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement. Ira Glass
works
My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here. Andy Reid
workshop
We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it. Cy Coleman
works
The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.
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I think it's the only way it works politically,