Adaptation Quotes
204 quotes by 179 authors
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A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.
— Joanne Froggatt
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Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if…
— Paul Bloom
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The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a…
— Donald Johanson
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of…
— Raina Telgemeier
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The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx,…
— August Krogh
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
— Dana Brunetti
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Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
— John Simon
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I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the…
— George C. Williams
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When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases…
— Laurel Clark
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Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the…
— David Mitchell
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
— Tabare Vazquez
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I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
— Andrew Davies
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In every place you go, you still have to adapt to the atmosphere, adapt to the nature of it and understand the humans living on…
— Simphiwe Scientist Dumi
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
— Unknown Author
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The nature of culture is evolution. The practice of culture is adaptation.
— Kelvin Chau
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Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people…
— Jenny Agutter
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They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming…
— Robert B. Parker
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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
— Henry Miller
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories…
— Walter Salles
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Hell is a state of mind! Hell is the loss of our adaptation mechanism that controls our inner demons, and our human wickedness that has…
— Rev Richard Skaff
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