Adapting Quotes - Page 7

• Women, I learned, adapted.
  At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.

  Alice Steinbach

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, Thinking, Turtles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

  H. G. Wells

  Change, Nature, Natural

  HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). “The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether”, p.54, Monkfish Book Publishing

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• It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Law, Perfect

  H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

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• ...we have got to deal with increased demand for energy, increased demand for food, increased demand for water, and we've got to do that while mitigating and adapting to climate change. And we have but 21 years to do it

  John Beddington

  Years, Water, Energy

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• Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Power, Majority, Medusa

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• I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'

  Simon Beaufoy

  Book, Levels, Sides

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• If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work.

  George Eastman

  Fun, Men, Choices

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• Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?

  Fred Emery

  Change, Why Not, Adaptive

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• Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.

  David Niven

  Frustrated, Age, World

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• Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.

  Chad Hodge

  Book, Things Change, Changed

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• Nothing has benefited me more physically, mentally and most important spiritually, then adapting a vegan diet. The best decision I have made as a human for me and the planet.

  Tim Shieff

  Decision, Important, Vegan

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• It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Book, Heart, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers] can't change your book. Your book remains on the shelf the way you wrote it. If they make a great movie of your book, then you have the equivalent of millions and millions of dollars of advertising for your book. If the movie's not that good, that doesn't mean the book's not good. It doesn't change what you've already written. It has the potential to reach more people.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Book, Mean, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I

  Arianna Huffington

  Thinking, News, Paper

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• Literally, the piece at the end is where the universe is cracked apart, it's a big moment. Basically, they, the filmmakers, have directed the story earlier in the book. It happens, it's called adapting a book, you have to make decisions about things. It's not unusual having to cut out scenes.

  Daniel Craig

  Book, Cutting, Decision

  "Daniel Craig Is Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 4, 2007.

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• I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case I failed because I did not want a script out there with my name on it that might be completely dysfunctional.

  Ben Affleck

  Names, Want, Might

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

  James Franco

  Book, Collaboration, Alive

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

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• From my personal taste, it needed more of a visual style. It's so hard when you're adapting something that's so visually scrumptious like Mike Oeming's drawings. They're so unique to comics, but they're a voice.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Unique, Voice, Drawing

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

  Andrew Davies

  Jobs, Doe, Ifs

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