Quotes About Adaptation

You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.

When I came into the film industry, I was so naive and confused and had no idea about how a heroine should work.

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

It's cool to be named a Shooting Star and, of course, a big honor. But as to what comes of that, I'm just going to see what comes my way.

If I had used real names, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' would have ever seen the light of day because it was a political film, an adaptation of a true incident.

I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles'... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then I try to fit them in.

The most serious problem doing biography is the matter of time because you have to shape events into a narrative of two hours; you have to create a dramatic arc. That can be a challenge.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

NASCAR is not immune to the down economy.

L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.

It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.

I can't really change Nashville.

California serves as our nation's cutting edge on many fronts.

The challenge of coaching a national side like England would be something different. The job is not about coaching every day.

When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

The players who have been with the national team for a long time are used to international competitions, used to playing against the best in the world.

When you come in with the national team, there's an adjustment period. Sometimes you don't have time to adjust.

The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.