Quotes About Adaptation

Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

Our genomes are evolving and changing every single day.

It's very difficult to change your approach to how you see yourself when you suddenly get divorced. And you have to think again, over the next few years, how you're going to earn your income, how you're going to run your life. You have to identify as a single mother rather than as part of a family.

You have to look at your situation, and 'how do I make the best of my situation every single night?' That's what I looked to do.

I change my set every single night.

I fought for a long time on 'Battlestar' to let my hair grow out. It was very frustrating because every single person on the show was changing their hair. It was not fair.

Playing in Seattle, 'The 12' are extremely loud. At first, I could be on the field, two feet away from you and not hear a single thing you're saying. But once you get used to the noise, you use it to your advantage. It charges you up.

Our business has changed so much. Do people even want albums, or do they just buy singles now? You sort of feel like you're the last guy manufacturing VCRs... but I really like albums, and so I like doing them. I'll be the last one making them, even when no one's buying them.

The difference between wrestling in singles and in tags, there's just a different art to it. There's a mentality.

If I just track Shang-Chi's journey in the context of table tennis in my life, it actually fits perfectly, and that's why I was able to sink into the character so, so seamlessly.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need to be a Catholic and need to purge my sins and confess. It just depends on where I am.

Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.

After Sir Alex Ferguson, it's been a difficult time for Man United, but actually, many people know that after Sir Alex Ferguson, it would be difficult for Man United.

When you change a manager like Sir Alex Ferguson, it is difficult.

Like Sir Alex Ferguson, I was so used to winning that I couldn't get used to the idea of losing.

The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

Moving to a new country is always difficult, but the fact my dad and my sister came to live with me was a huge help. That made things easier.

Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.

I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.