Quotes About Adaptation

Normally if you are in a boat, you can follow a fish around, but if you are on the shore, you have to pull it.

I have never been very good with technology and when it comes to gadgets I normally lag pretty far behind my friends.

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

Since one of my roles is that of a con man, I actually mingled with a few pickpockets in north Chennai to get a hang of their body language and mindset.

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

I think I've always loved playing in North America.

I act like a native in North America. I eat sliders in Detroit.

Yeah, I'm from North Carolina, but grew up in Eastern Europe, and became a woman in London.

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

I'm from all over the Northeast.

My wife and I grew up in the Northeast but my daughters are sort of small-town girls, from the Midwest.

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

There is something quintessentially northern in my DNA, even though I've lived in London since I was 18.

Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'm not sad about it. It's fine.

My ancestors are Highland Scots, and my father's home in north Alabama is so much like northwest Arkansas. I have the same allergies in both places.

I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture.

I dream in Norwegian, I count in Norwegian so that basically makes me Norwegian now, I suppose.

I really do see the sharks evolving their perspective. In the early days of the show, if you brough them an app, they would've turned their noses up. But now they know how indispensable those apps are, even to their own traditional businesses.

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

I am not nostalgic for the past.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.

You have to hit the ground running at West Ham. If you don't, suddenly from the fans it's, 'You're not good enough to play for our football club.'