Quotes About Adaptation

I started my career in an era when footballers were different. There was a different culture.

We often compare footballers with players of the past.

Returning serve on clay is not easy because you don't always have a sure footing so you can't push off in the way that you would like.

There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them.

My hair changes with my emotions... and my purpose for the day.

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done.

I want to be an Actress that is forced to change in order to play certain characters or tell stories. I don't want to just play a version of myself.

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

We're always evolving. It forces us to grow.

I joke that I came out of my mother with chopsticks in my hands. But one of my earliest memories is of my dad forcing me to learn to eat with chopsticks.

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

I couldn't make it work, in the end, in Tulsa or Dallas - in the middle of this foreign country without my support system.

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

I always feel like a foreigner in America.

To be a foreigner may be an advantage but disadvantage as well. It was advantage for me for sure.

It's not easy for a foreigner to come to England and win the respect of your team-mates, of the fans, and of the English people.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

I never expected to adapt so quickly, but if you are a foreigner it's up to you to adapt to English football because you can't change it. I think I've achieved something in the way I adapted.

I am forever learning and changing.