Quotes About Adaptation

Futon World - a wonderful place that becomes slowly less comfortable over time.

But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

Change isn't easy, it takes time.

To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Every time I "get with the program"... somebody changes the channel.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

Every time you respond in a certain fashion, it gets easier and easier to respond.

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made Ringu, and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.

I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.