Quotes About Adaptation

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known. But when I see other people's upbringings, I think, 'Hmm... mine was rather unconventional. Quite different!'

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.

I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.

Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.

In 2003, when I wrote the first 'Dhoom,' we were at the end of the curve of a certain kind of Hindi film, which was quite plastic. 'Dhoom' was unconventional then.

Around 2015, I started to see my skills diminish. It happens to everybody. Father Time is undefeated. He is gonna win every time, and I saw him catching me.

When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed by Spike Lee and starred Edward Norton.

From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!

President Trump has a unique way of doing things different to his predecessors, but what I would say is that don't underestimate his ability to take very intractable situations and shake the deck of cards and try and find a solution.

Players can underestimate the Premier League.

It is easy to underestimate in advance the impact of globalization and automation - I have done it myself.

I think people underestimate when you have a brace on your knee how much that truly restricts you.

You cannot underestimate the body blow for a snooker player of having your cue broken. After all, it's an extension to your arm.

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

I underestimated the difference of fighting in a cage.

Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.

What we've underestimated is the systemic risk that that very finely tuned system of specialization exposes us to. And so I think we will start to ask whether there are ways that we could build some more robustness into our whole system.

When I was switching around in my early stages, people underestimated how difficult it was just to go from playing centre midfield to right-back to centre-back to right-back to centre midfield.

Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.

One of the reasons why Spider-Man is my favorite superhero is because we both undergo big changes in our lives.

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.