Quotes About Adaptation

After I was cast in the acclaimed film 'Khuda Ke Liye,' I thought it would open up film avenues for me in Pakistan and, maybe, even internationally. When that didn't happen, I decided to use TV as a means of polishing my craft.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.

Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.

I realized I have to be politically correct and easy. I was taking myself too seriously, I had become rude.

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

Every politician goes through a lean patch during which they go back to their main area of expertise. Some return to business, some practice law, and I... have come back to cinema.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

Politics is the art of the next best.

I went from being a big fish in a small pond to going to City with a lot of top players, I felt like I had to work really hard to be the best.

My kids have been watching a lot of 'My Little Pony,' and it's rubbing off on me.

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

If something doesn't work, you have to admit it. Always try to find what's going right and what's going wrong with your music. If you can, pool your resources and record yourself; do that frequently.

The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

There were many times eating ramen noodles and sitting on a friend's couch watching ESPN where I was like, 'This is not what I thought California was going to be like. I thought it was going to be pools and cocktails with umbrellas in them and Maseratis, but this ain't it.'

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like Mexico City and Lagos becoming increasingly common in some of the poorest parts of the world.

From one week to the next, everything changes from who you're playing to the defense's scheme. You just try to build on the things that you did well and correct the things that you did poorly in the game; then, move forward from there and hopefully continue to get better and better and better as you move forward.