"Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of……" — W. P. Kinsella
"Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual."
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27 Quotes by W. P. Kinsella
W. P. Kinsella has 27 quotes on this site.
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by…
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My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as…
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If you build it, they will come.
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Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules.…
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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or…
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the…
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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time…
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than…
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More Adaptation Quotes
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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general…
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not…
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I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed…
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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…
— Nick Cave
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple…
— Lord Chesterfield
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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…
— Warren Christopher
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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…
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There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance…
— Sun Tzu
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Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the…
— Georges Clemenceau
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This…
— Laozi
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During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned -…
— Peter Drucker
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me…
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