Adaptation Quotes - Page 2

• For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Race, Environmental

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fitness, Perseverance, Exercise

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• Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.

  Suzanne Collins

  Powerful, Faithful, Vision

  "Suzanne Collins Talks About the Hunger Games Movie" by Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Men, Mind

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

  Norman Jewison

  Italian, Bread, Film

  "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

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• Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

  Walter Lang

  Race, Environment, Needed

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• To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Destiny, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (195?). “The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in one volume: including the poems, philosophic and inspirational essays, and biographical studies”

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• I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.

  Diablo Cody

  Sweet, Ideas, Age

  "‘Young Adult’ Writer Diablo Cody: We Never Really Grow Up". Interview with Margaret Bristol, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Details, Helping, Evoke

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• Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Belief, Form

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• I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences.

  Tommy Davidson

  Thinking, Style, Comedy

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• The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

  Nick Cave

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

  Gordon Getty

  Revolution

  "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Animal, Details, Habit

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1853). “A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley”, p.83, London : Reeve and Company

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• The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Struggle, Heart, Darkness

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.246, Cambridge University Press

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• Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

  Frank Darabont

  Ideas, Originals, Depends

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• I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Men, Thinking, Sight

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• One learns to itch where one can scratch.

  Ernest Bramah

  Scratches, Adaptability, Itching

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.442, e-artnow

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• As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

  Ernst Mayr

  Two, Population, Ignoring Facts

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

  Warren Christopher

  Taken, Thinking, Giants

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• My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

  Sonny Rollins

  Mother, Islands, Tunes

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• I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

  Satyajit Ray

  Two, Long, Stories

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Names, Theatre, Television

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• Writing is a journey into the unknown.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Journey

  Charlie Kaufman (2001*). “Adaptation: Screenplay”

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