Quotes About Adaptation

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

If you have a horse that isn't winning any races, sooner or later you have to get a new jockey.

I believe a band has to evolve rather than making the same album over and over again, because if you do, sooner or later people are going to get tired of you.

For the first four or five years I was in Korea, I took a lot of direction from my management and label in terms of what people want. I found myself trying to fit into that thing I never felt comfortable with because the critique I got was that I was too American, and too sophisticated and polished in terms of my musicality and it won't sell.

My freshman year, I played third, and sophomore and junior, third.

I think the sophomore curse happens when you change every bit of yourself. Though my hair is blonde now, sonically it's still the same girl; conceptually it's still the same girl.

If you watch my game, freshman year to sophomore year, I was a different player.

You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

Indiana Jones is old school; we've moved on from Indy. Sorry, Harrison Ford.

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

When you go though the door to the big league, your band is no longer your band. I wouldn't want anyone to feel sorry for us. We'd worked and we'd gone for it. We were pretty gung-ho. I liked our attitude.

It's funny; in fashion, you can never relax and feel like it's all sorted. Every season, you have to give yourself a challenge and come up with something new and fresh.

At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

I don't have and have never had an email address. I'm old school. But as far as downloads go, my only objection is I like the sound of CDs better, so I buy those. I think the sound quality is better.

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

I'ma sound like all your favorite rappers.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

We'd never do 'The Sound of Music' because the movie was perfect.

I'm delighted that 'The Sound of Music' is doing so well. Of course, it's an infallible piece of material. Even when second- and third-rate road companies were doing the play, they did enormous business.

When we did 'Endgame,' we were all hunched over and making the craziest sounds. Then I graduated and went right into auditioning for 'Gossip Girl' and things like that, where, as an actress, you're required to act from the neck up and, from the neck down. It's a presentation of your birthday-suit self.

With 'Scratch,' our goal is to allow people to mix together all kinds of media, not just sounds, in creative ways. We want people to start from existing materials - grabbing an image, grabbing some sound, maybe even bits of someone else's program, and then extending them and mixing them to make them their own.

So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.