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• Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Self, Average, Common Sense

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• To survive you have to withstand the changes in the business. This business has gone through so many changes since I was young and now it is on to something else. It is all weird today, for me, because I am from the old times. You just have to keep adapting. Isn't that Darwinism? The creature that adapts to its environment survives.

  John Carpenter

  Gone, Today, Environment

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• I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit facile where they think: "Let's get the next best-seller and see if we can turn it into a film."

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Games, Stories

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Water, Victory

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.117, Shambhala Publications

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• Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Christian, Character, Fifty

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012

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• Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.

  Howard Gordon

  Writing, Eye, People

  "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

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• At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Book, Media, Bridges

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• Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Different Experiences, Sweden, Comedy

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• The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Mean, Style, Special

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• I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

  Tom Perrotta

  Cutting, Two, Challenges

  ""The Exchange: Tom Perrotta" by Sarah Larson". www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2011.

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• The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Scary, Worst

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’d say that Berkshire Hathaway’s system is adapting to the nature of the investment problem as it really is. We’ve really made the money out of high quality businesses. In some cases, we bought the whole business. And in some cases, we just bought a big block of stock. But when you analyze what happened, the big money’s been made in the high quality businesses. And most of the other people who’ve made a lot of money have done so in high quality businesses.

  Charlie Munger

  Block, People, Quality

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• I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.

  Emma Thompson

  Book, Writing, Los Angeles

  "Thompson plays dual roles in 'Sense and Sensibility'" by Sherry Dean, www.cnn.com. December 14, 1995.

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• Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve them well.

  Arthur W. Page

  Country, Art, Freedom

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• I'm always adapting, I'm always learning, and I'm always changing.

  Anthony Pettis

  Ufc, Mma, Always Learning

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• Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

  Gunnar Nelson

  Art, Fighting, Mma

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• Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.

  Bear Grylls

  Gay, Progressive, Should

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.

  Allison Mackie

  Love Is, Universal Love, Standards

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• You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

  Kelly Link

  Writing, Love Is, Romance

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The pathfinders of modern thought did not derive what is good from the law. ... Their role in history was not that of adapting their words and actions to the text of old documents or generally accepted doctrines: they themselves created the documents and brought about the acceptance of their doctrines.

  Max Horkheimer

  Acceptance, Law, Roles

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.22, A&C Black

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• Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Trying, Kind, Tricks

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• The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Self, Way, Smooth

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• Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

  Tom Cruise

  Black And White, Games, Chess Game

  "New Again: Tom Cruise and Cameron Crowe". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown solutions." The idea that Rwanda is highly controlled from the center belies the reality, which is that citizens in every village have a powerful say in how things get done. We prize accountability and Rwandans are quickly adapting themselves to the possibilities of a digital economy.

  Paul Kagame

  Country, Powerful, Recovery

  "Exclusive interview: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda". Interview with Tony Metcalf, www.metro.us. August 29, 2012.

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• We live in a very inspirational point in time. Things are progressing faster and further than ever before. What inspires me most is the world we live in adapting at such a rapid rate.

  Dillon Lane

  Inspire, Progress, World

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