Quotes About Adaptation

I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just hang out and joke around, like I would normally, but I had to try to find the movie to shoot.

People are afraid of change. We all are. Human beings are afraid of change, but change can be good.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

My advice on-set is to make every day better than last one. Change is good.

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me personally. When I was in fifth grade - so about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark.

A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break.

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.