Quotes About Adaptation

Salomon Brothers, E. F. Hutton, Shearson, Lehman, Smith Barney... all these firms disappear, and the Street just rolls on.

The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off.

When I was about eighteen, I saw myself as a rather sensitive, delicate, poetic, romantic figure. And then I got into the Civilian Conservation Corps and into the army, and I started smoking and drinking and being tough and getting muscles, and I had a whole different image of myself.

When I first moved to Austin in January of 2000, I went out drinking and smoking every single night for a year. And it was really fun at first, but then I started to feel kind of weird because, before I moved here, I had a vision of myself becoming a new person once I lived in Austin. I just hadn't realized that person might be Nick Nolte.

I have always had a very smooth driving style. But when I started competing as a disabled driver, I had to take that even more to the extreme.

I got 'Smooth' when I was growing up. I got 'Bigshot' playing in Detroit. People who know me from Denver call me 'Smooth.'

You have to maintain the balance between fast growth and smooth growth. It's like driving a car and knowing when to balance the gas pedal and the brake.

My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.

Arsenal's style of play is so smooth and easy and I hope I can adapt to their style quickly.

I had a smooth take-off in Malayalam, I would like to explore more and take up films that are different in Tamil.

I just try to fit into society the best I can. Be unobtrusive, be smooth. I don't want to hurt anybody, or be hurt.

I don't ever train half-pipe except for the short training sessions during events, and because of that, I have a really hard time consistently putting my runs down smoothly.

When you have three different coaches in the same qualifying competition, there are bound to be things that don't work smoothly.

My marriage was a bit of a low-key affair due to COVID-19, but things went smoothly.

London represents the idea that someone pulled away the set from my life and replaced it with another. 'Here is your new baby. Here is your new life. And now you do comedy.' Without being smug, it's the best fun.

I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.

Snapchat is the platform I should have built at Justin.tv, so I'm jumping on the bandwagon and going hard on Snapchat.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

Sometimes people take the approach that the play starts when the ball is snapped and kind of ends when you catch the ball, but for us... there's a new play that starts as soon as you catch that ball.

My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

I went to high schools in four different countries. The gift is that you can constantly reinvent yourself. I still feel that freedom. One day, I'll wear a dress I got in India; the next, Converse sneakers and jeans.

It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.

My 'SNL' days of working through the night have come and gone.

My jokes have definitely changed. 'SNL' has helped with that, because when you're on 'SNL,' you have to kind of pay attention to the news. I feel like my material has gotten smarter now.