Quotes About Adaptation

When the car was introduced in 1908, people could experience a brand new way to travel that was more efficient than a horse and buggy. Can you believe that cities tried to outlaw cars in the United States? Can you imagine driving a car for a year then having to go back to a horse and buggy?

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.

I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.'

Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women's roles.

At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.

I would not go so far as to say that we are completely changing our outlook.

I was a Thatcherite. But to be fair, I probably have changed my outlook.

We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.

The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving - incrementally improving things that already exist - and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside.

I feel like I am the outsider on the inside, if that makes sense. But I have coped with it.

It may look weird to an outsider to watch me jump out of the car basically walking on my arms. Of course, it's very easy for me.

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.

The only time I used to feel like an outsider was when I first went to India.

I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country.

When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware of what they are.

Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that.

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

Any captain will take some time to settle down. Nobody is an outstanding leader straightaway.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

I work like a baker. I mix things, put them in the oven and see if I like what comes out.

All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.

I didn't have much of a relationship with the songs and my voice was changing. I didn't have any control over it. I mean, one day it could be high and the next day it could be gone. And that's why we had to keep going back in and doing songs over.

I first came up under Joe Royle and when Keegan took over it was even better for me because I felt his style added more to my game.