Quotes About Adaptation

I wrote a song called 'Four Times A Lady' for Destiny's Child, and it was perfect. But then I had to spin it back and change all the lyrics to a guy's point of view cos I thought the track was too good to give away, heh heh. It's Craig David now.

Conditions dictate how much fast bowling you face compared to how much spin you face.

I don't think I have too many filmmaking years left since I hurt my spine and knee.

I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.

When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the curving in my spine. I've got two 12-inch rods and eight screws going up my back keeping me straight, and they fuse together with my spine, so now I can't really live without them.

Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't have a strong spine.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinning plates.

I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' every five years. You realise that some things have caught up.

I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.

I changed in a lot of ways, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.

Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

You get a lot of people who are used to the stage and a lot of people who are used to prime time, and they can't keep up with the pace. It's so fast - you have to digest it, regurgitate it, spit it out, and then start over and move on to the next scene.

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.

The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It doesn't look much like it used to, but it's more comfortable, and there's probably a lot of wear left in it.

There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

Money and success haven't really changed my beliefs or opinions over the years. When I was growing up, my mum and dad split when I was 13 or 14, during the early-Nineties recession. At that time, my dad went bankrupt, and it played a huge part in it all at home.

I got used to being pushed down, getting my eye split open and guys talking trash.You have to learn to live with it and adapt to it. That's what I did.

I used to catch and take a big dip down and then finally I'd try to shoot. That first year playing the NBA, I was realizing how little time you have to shoot the ball. The time you have from when you catch it to the guy closing out is just a split second. So I had to figure out a way to get my shot off quicker. Then it was just repetition.

Every band goes through breakups or splits.