Quotes About Adaptation

Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.

I've always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I'm drawn to more classic looks, though I'll still put my own twist on them.

There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.

Every week, there's a different twist and turn you're not going to see coming, and how you handle that is important.

What I do is, I look at rock guitar players, and I say to myself, 'What is this guy doing? What does he have that can inspire me?' I try to see what other people are doing and take what they have and turn it and twist it into my own thing.

In some ways we describe 'Boxtrolls' as 'Oliver Twist' if Terry Gilliam had made it. I think he's an extraordinary artist, and animator.

My pictures of 'Oliver Twist' and 'A Boy in Flanders' are being used as school lessons.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

I don't like planning what am I gonna say to the crowd. Sometimes the show takes a whole different twist.

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

I understand that wrestling now has changed as opposed to what it was when I worked, but I still think you can apply some of the things that I talk about and just put your 2018 twist on it and still make it work.

Indian filmmakers sometimes twist the details and the mood of the film to give it the Indian masala flavor. This tod-marod in films is a rather big impediment.

When you have kids, things come at you that you don't expect and you twist and turn to sort it out.

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.

The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.

After I left Dream Theater, and I was doing Avenged Sevenfold, Twisted Sister... all these other things, I made a lot of new fans in a lot of new areas.

I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

Finding your way doesn't mean surviving, just as pleasing an audience doesn't mean twisting your editorial around search engine optimization and Facebook algorithms.

I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.

Just like basketball, MMA is all about taking what you're given and exploiting it as much as possible. Strength and stamina are important, but a clear mind might be your biggest asset. Of course, keeping a clear mind while someone twists your arm behind your head isn't all that easy.

Twitch has been very hard for me. It makes me feel so stupid. I don't understand it at all... It's very complicated.

I can barely use my iPhone. I can't do Facebook, can't do Twitter, can't do Instagram, none of it.