Quotes About Adaptation

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

I think there's been a big psychological shift in people my age raising children. The world that they are growing into requires a different style of parenting.

A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.

Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.

To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy of the world.

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

Every role I have in my kitty is different. None of them resemble the roles I have played in my earlier films.

The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.

If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that's the kind of role they call you for. I can't say I resent it - then I would resent my whole career.

I spent a lot of my childhood saying goodbye because I went to boarding school. I didn't resent my parents for sending me there so young as I understood the limitations of the education system in Africa, where we lived at the time.

Around the time Andre Villas-Boas became manager I went to a summer training camp in America. But when I got back, to my horror, I found that all my kit had been moved into the reserve team changing room. I was told I wasn't allowed in the first team dressing room anymore.

Nobody comes back from a serious injury and is the same after a month or even three months. You should play in the reserves; you get your muscle back and regain your match rhythm. Psychologically, you need to build your confidence back up and you hope there are no complications. Even in a settled side, it's hard.

I was 16 and went straight into the reserves. I had to adapt to the language, adapt to a new country, adapt to a style of play, all with new team-mates. All those kind of things were in my head and it was very hard.

Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems much more likely that the resident population doesn't change as much as thought. The people stay put but are reculturalized by some new dominant culture.

Resident Evil 4' truly changed the way I look at making games.

I very much see 'Resident Evil' as my franchise that I kicked, screaming, into life.

For 'Shiddat,' I knew I had to look, feel and sound like a seasoned resident of Paris.

Because I live and breathe design every day, sometimes I will come across an idea that is something I want to try. It often comes from an old hotel or an old restaurant, and I will adapt it to be residential.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

I don't see as much of a resilience any more. I look at my kids sometimes and it's so easy to jump from one ship to the next.