“Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along… — Jaimal Yogis Copy Share Image
I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark'... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems… — Edgar Schein Copy Share Image
All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
You usually get a script and you tell people what the story's about, and they have no idea what's going on. Whereas… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
We were friends with Jonathan Demme. We were all down on the West Side of New York, and I think I met… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Why I am Passionate and Dedicated 1000% to producing and bringing my books Loving Summer, Bitter Frost, and other book series to… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
Everybody says video-game adaptations are all the same, but I disagree. Normally, video-game adaptations are like Alone In The Dark, Resident Evil,… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
“What brings us anywhere? You take one turn instead of another, you meet one woman instead of another, you have good health… — Ward Just Copy Share Image
“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I was 17 when I first acted on stage. I was a part of an Urdu adaptation of 'Spartacus' in the titular role. — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“It's often a razor's edge you'll walk between coaxing adaptation while avoiding exhaustion (or injury). Master this, and you'll unlock the key… — Craig Cecil Copy Share Image
Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
…shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows… — Michael Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement, — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost… — Killian Scott Copy Share Image
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
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