Quotes About Adaptation

I was very excited and pleased when I got the opportunity to play Lisa Hayden's role. I saw the original version of 'Queen' and feel the role has so much to offer.

You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can't go back to living the way you did before because you've been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.

When I first got to the city, I had no money. I was living in Queens amongst boxes and lived in Harlem and didn't have a couch.

It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment, and I had an English accent.

I think as queer people, we were very used to accommodating.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'

In every part of our society, rules have to be questioned and adapted.

It's funny, because earlier, I used to have questions about how you coped with the seniors in the team, and now I get questions about how you're guiding these juniors.

New stimuli can come from the same coach if he questions himself.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?

People are very quick to go, 'What is this nonsense?' if they've not seen something before and it's a bit different.

My first couple shows, I figured I should be playing the guitar and singing. That felt weird, but I got good at it pretty quick, and I learned my songs and how to play them.

I am definitely quick to adapt. I am not scared to come into a new environment.

If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based on my speaking skills, it would be very low.

This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

At the start, it was a bit difficult to come to Chelsea, a new club in a new league with very good players. It was very difficult to get into the team, but I did a lot of things to try and settle quick into the club, the team, the area.

I started playing as a full-back, but it's hard to chase quick forwards, especially for me as I'm not particularly quick.

Most of the games are decided by a small margin. That shows the intensity and the competitiveness of the English league. Everyone knows here the competition is ferocious. It's a bit different than the Portuguese league. But I'm going to try to adapt to this league as quick as possible.

The ballet world I don't think is an art form that is quick to change or to adjust or evolve.

I was on a picture for four or five days, had an opportunity to be on a set, and the assistant cameraman kept showing me things. One day I climbed the fence, knowing they needed an assistant cameraman. A couple of days later, I was one. The first day or two, it was pretty disastrous, but I knew something about photography, and I caught on quick.

Technology is just so fast. As convenient as it is, it's stressing a lot of us out. It's just too much, too quick. And I'm interested in that conversation.

Bottom line - American history tells us that where there is a will, there will always be a way to achieve quick and fast inclusion.