Quotes About Adaptation

'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.

As a writer, that moment every few years when I buy a new laptop and find out that all the word processing stuff has slightly changed again (stuff I spend every working day using) is like getting into bed at night and finding some mad robot where you expected your wife to be.

Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a different attitude.

If I am comfortable, I say what I want to. But yes, while doing a comedy show, I am slightly reserved as a person. Since it's scripted, it's not a problem. I can manage.

I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.

Every actor demands different things. Every human being you come in contact with in your life, you have to deal with in slightly different ways.

I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because they remain relevant, regardless of how you do them.

I'm such a different person to the one I was at Radio 1... and I like to think that women are treated slightly differently to back then.

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner - even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.

My effort is to slip into any role that is offered to me. The minute you go into those costumes, those grand sets, and start prepping up for the role, you become the part or at least start feeling the part.

I don't like permanency. I just like to slip and slide, and in identity, I think that's a very feminine artist's point of view.

When you get on to fresh grass courts you always know that they might be a bit slippery but you have to adjust accordingly.

I know I can go outside and have better numbers than I put up in the slot.

Something I really pride myself on is not just being a running back that can catch the ball but if I move out to the slot, I become a receiver.

I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.

I was someone who used to bat up the order. Due to different reasons, I started batting at No. 7, and that became a permanent slot for me.

For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.

The league is changing. There are a lot more small receivers now. I could see myself maybe in a slot like Wes Welker.

The publishing world has been very slow to adapt to the digital world.

Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'

When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.