Quotes About Adaptation

But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

If you're a classical actor, every Shakespearean part you play, you then say, 'McKellen did it this way,' and, 'Jacobi did it this way.' There's a whole list of Oliviers and people, whether you play Hamlet or Richard II or Richard III, any of those roles. And I found that a bit when I did 'La Cage.' It didn't bother me one bit.

I begged my parents to let me go to LA for three months just to try it out. Three months turned into five years.

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

I know what labels and artists need, along with the consumer.

I don't care if the record labels survive. The music will survive anyhow.

The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.

Labour is at its best when we understand how the country has changed and we adapt to new circumstances.

When I was 17, I rewrote the songs for a musicalized version of 'Love's Labour's Lost.'

When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.

chant: "We need a _____ floppy; We need a _____ floppy!" Jobs agreed only to include a floppy drive on a later model. Still, the Japanese company Canon was impressed enough to invest $100 million in 1989 for a 16.7 percent piece of the company, giving NeXT important cash while it tried to roll out its computers. By then, however, much had changed in the

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. —Abraham Maslow

Change your mind and your life will follow.

But . . . you still know the truth. You know you're faking it." "Yes, but eventually you realize something: the other side is, too. At least as often as not. Learn what you can; do what you can; get others to do for you what you can't. And fake it for all you're worth in the meantime." He

I wasn't usually the screaming type; I'd trained myself out of it years ago, because it doesn't up your chances of survival if you broadcast to the enemy both the fact that you're wounded and exactly where you are.

Learn what you can; do what you can; get others to do for you what you can't. And fake it for all you're worth in the meantime.

Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.

The chicken industry tells the public that economic profitability cannot be achieved without careful attention to the welfare of the chicken, but this is not how the system actually works. Chickens can be profoundly mistreated and still "produce," just as profoundly mistreated humans can be overweight, sexually active, and able to produce offspring. Like humans, chickens can "adapt," up to a point, to living in slum conditions. Is this an argument for slums?

If you know something will eventually come to an end, you can handle it.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

We thought we only wanted X, but having read this application, it seems important to expand our thinking to include Y.

It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.

If only [love] could be turned off. It's not a faucet. Love's a bloody river with level-five rapids. Only a catastrophic act of nature or a dam has any chance of stopping it- and then only succeeds in diverting it. Both measures are extreme and change the terrain so much you end up wondering why you bothered. No landmarks to gauge your position when it's done. Only way to survive is to devise new ways to map out life.

If you can't fuck it, eat it or use it for a weapon--kill it.