Quotes About Adaptation

I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I used to just cross out the parts of it that really upset me because it's such a sad book in so many ways. I'd cross out the parts that upset me, and I would rewrite new endings.

The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.

The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.

In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.

A big player coming in can change the dynamics of the dressing room, upset the rhythm of the team and end up doing more harm than good.

From a plot perspective, what I finally found for my touchstone was that I consider 'Upside' to be a loose telling of Jane Austen's 'Emma,' or 'Clueless.'

When things are happening they don't hit me at that point of time. The downside is that I don't get to celebrate the moment, the upside is I don't get intimidated and I can perform.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.

In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.

Anyone can lose their home and find their life is turned upside down.

There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard.

You would hear stories of people that lost their houses. I remember people who had their whole lives turned upside down. I think people did learn lessons from the '80s.

My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.

The feel of space... Some folks have asked what it is like to work out in space. Yes, you can work upside down, right side up, sideways - anyway you want to to make it convenient.

I've never been stuck in the Upside Down, and no one else I know has, so it was kind of something new to just create.

After being on the field for so long and feeling like you have some control over the outcome or what's happening out there, now I'm upstairs, and I have no control over anything. I'm working through that.

Hey, I learned early the game of football is just that, a game, and you can't get too uptight. If things get too terrible, you can always go out and get another job somewheres else.

People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.