Quotes About Adaptation

I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

I am one of three sisters and went to an all-girls grammar school so I'm used to being around girls.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward.

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would be learning and growing, and they won't be funny, so they have to get more and more extremely whatever they are.

In 2010, I was the star of a sitcom. It came and went pretty fast. But in the months from when I was cast in the sitcom through when it was done airing, my life did change remarkably.

The family sitcom has been around forever, since the advent of television. I don't need to reinvent it. But if you take something and you do it in a way that you haven't necessarily seen before, that's right where I live.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.

I don't think anybody in my graduating class would have figured that I would be doing full-on single-camera comedies or sitcoms, or anything like that, but it certainly has been a part of my career.

You launch a site, and you see what works, and you continue to make it better.

You are ruled by change whether you like it or not, and io9's future path lies with joining a larger site that covers technology as well as science and science fiction.

When I first started 'Humans of New York,' I was writing short stories. There were about 50 of them. And, you know, they were a great part of the site, but the photography just started growing so fast that I didn't have time to make them anymore.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

In life, you have got to make the best of every situation; you have to keep going.

I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

You can put my dad in any situation and he's going to figure it out. He's going to figure the people out and how to get along, how to make everyone comfortable.

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

I was being laughed at. I hated it, so I made an adjustment to control the situation. All comics learn that.

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.