quotes about Adaptation
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
-- Alfred Russel WallaceSource : Alfred Russel Wallace (1853). “A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley”, p.83, London : Reeve and Company
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When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
-- Camille Paglia -
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The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
-- Charlie KaufmanSource : Charlie Kaufman (2001*). “Adaptation: Screenplay”
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Writing is a journey into the unknown.
-- Charlie KaufmanSource : Charlie Kaufman (2001*). “Adaptation: Screenplay”
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Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
-- David BenioffSource : "Web Access... David Benioff". www.bbc.co.uk.
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The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
-- David Hare -
Our adaptation to the natural forces is a question of existence or non-existence. We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves to nature and her laws.
-- Edmond Bordeaux Szekely -
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
-- Ernest BramahSource : Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.442, e-artnow
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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
-- Ernst MachSource : Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”
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Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
-- Frank Darabont -
I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
-- Gordon GettySource : "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
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Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
-- Henry MillerSource : Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.251, New Directions Publishing
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What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
-- Jaimal YogisSource : Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com
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A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.
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It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
-- John Crowe Ransom -
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Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.
-- John ToobySource : Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby (1992). “The Adapted mind: evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture”, Oxford University Press, USA
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In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.
-- Larry Constantine -
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.
-- Marjane Satrapi -
All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
-- Max McKeown -
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The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.
-- Michael GazzanigaSource : Michael S. Gazzaniga (2000). “The Mind's Past”, p.13, Univ of California Press
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Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change
-- Nicholas SternSource : Nicholas Stern (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.601, Cambridge University Press
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Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised
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After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
-- Terry Southern -
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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
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Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.
-- Timothy Leary -
The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
-- Wallace Stegner -
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
-- Walter Lang -
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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
-- Wendell Berry -
Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.
-- Wesley Snipes -
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.
-- William WhewellSource : William Whewell (1845). “The Elements of Morality, Including Polity”, p.157
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To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.
-- Christopher McQuarrieSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.
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Whenever you get game adaptations, it strikes me that it's always the gamers who get mugged because they try and make it for everyone else first and the actual gamers last.
-- Joey AnsahSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader.
-- Raul Garcia -
I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
-- Andrew Davies -
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Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.
-- Ronald A. HeifetzSource : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.204, Harvard Business Review Press