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Quotes About Adaptation

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.
~ Robert Gottlieb
For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.
~ Douglas Booth
Shakespeare has been adapted by Akira Kurosawa. 'Dangerous Liaisons' has been adapted into a Chinese movie. 'Blood Simple', the Coen brothers movie, was adapted by Zhang Yimou.
~ Ng Chin Han
The body changes shape and there's nothing you can do about it.
~ Morrissey
I'm a shape shifter.
~ Annabelle Wallis
I see myself as a Shark.
~ Joe Thornton
I'm not as sharp as I used to be.
~ Roddy Piper
The older you get, you do lose a little bit of sharpness. I experienced that myself as a player.
~ Rob Page
When I shaved part of my head in 2007, I was not an anticipating the grow-out process.
~ Hannah Bronfman
We looked back on what we used to eat and thought, 'That's not cool.' We had to move with the times and that meant we had to shed weight and not get sick.
~ Dave Myers
We always want to keep a clean sheet, but there are situations we can't control.
~ Keylor Navas
Certainly Sheffield United have been a good fit for me.
~ Chris Wilder
I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.
~ Maria Muldaur
I believe that everything has a shelf life.
~ Mahershala Ali
I have created a shell around me, in the good and the bad moments.
~ Olivier Giroud
I love Sherri Shepherd as Lula.
~ Janet Evanovich
It's tough being able to shift your mind during the years and change roles.
~ Jordan Clarkson
For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.
~ Michael C. Hall
We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
~ Ma Jun
Nothing is won on your first shift and nothing is lost on your first shift, so it's about keeping things in perspective.
~ Joe Thornton
It does get difficult to shift from a 'Wanted' to a 'Mod.'
~ Ayesha Takia
Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.
~ Andrew Keenan-Bolger
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
~ John Naisbitt
Because I've been around for quite a long time and done a lot of different stuff, there's a shifting idea of who I am.
~ David Baddiel