"Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart……" — Jonathan Tropper
"Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child."
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60 Quotes by Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper has 60 quotes on this site.
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We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to…
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We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living…
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There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no…
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That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
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Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
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At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.
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I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took…
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She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being…
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Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and…
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But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see…
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You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all…
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And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties,…
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More Adapting Quotes
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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
— Joe Barton
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
— Samuel Butler
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I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
— Paula Abdul
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
— Jackie Chan
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
— William James
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The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able…
— Roger Bannister
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Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for…
— Unknown Author
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Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide…
— John Beddington
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John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our…
— Michael Palin
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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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