Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lindy Ruff

We want to adapt to the new standards and be on the leading edge of that,

Chris Young

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Gavin Hood

The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'

Gavin Hood

I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

George C. Williams

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.

Troy Polamalu

It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.

Sylvia Earle

I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.

Sumner Redstone

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment,

Willa Holland

Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls.

Warren Ellis

Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

We don't know whether the use of vaccines is reducing the viral load and not causing birds to die, or if the birds may continue to shed virus without symptoms. We don't know if the virus is adapting itself into the poultry.

We don't know how people will use it, we just know what we have and the research will tell us how to adapt to the customers' desires.

Michael Mann

We don't know how many countries are going to put forward measures and we don't know how much those measures will cost. We didn't want to be too prescriptive, we wanted to leave it to the member states to adapt the measures to the national situation.

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.

Harvey V. Fineberg

Evolution does not necessarily favor the longest-lived. It doesn't necessarily favor the biggest or the strongest or the fastest, and not even the smartest. Evolution favors those creatures best adapted to their environment. That is the sole test of survival and success.

Walter Kirn

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.

Tony Hawk

You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games. It used to just be Nintendo and PlayStation, and now it's all kind of devices. So you've got to learn to adapt what you know from the technology into those areas... I've been wanting to do a mobile game for a long time.

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

Philip Pullman

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Cassandra Clare

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.

Dominic Cooper

I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

Nick Park

It's very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation.

Peter Jackson

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.

Susan Minot

In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.

Colin Cooper

I thought we adapted better in the rain, simply because we were more committed.

I think we match up really well with them, especially if we can get our fans into it and use them also. But we definitely match up well with them in a sense that they adapt and we adapt, so it'll be exciting.

I thought out of everybody on the team, Adam had the best performance on the weekend. Over the past two weeks since we came back from break, he's been wrestling better each consecutive week. It's about consistency and improving, and he's definitely been doing that over the last couple weeks.

I think we're probably more adaptable now than we were in the past. Education is the key to that -- it makes you flexible.

I think Bruno has understood fairly early on what is required for Scottish football. He has adapted well to the pace of the game, which is hectic not just in Scotland but in Britain as a whole. He is decent on the ball, but he knows when to put his foot in and I think we saw that on Saturday. He played well against Motherwell and he can look after himself because he is a tough little cookie. I think people would agree he's done well so far.

P. J. O'Rourke

Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.

Bret Easton Ellis

Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

Wilbur Smith

There is no quick way of making money. People come to you with tips for the races or offer the latest Ponzi scheme, but I can see them coming a mile off. I just go with the adage that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.