#adaptation

You are what you love, not what loves you. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#love

It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece. ↗

— David Brock

#book #compressed #different #different parts #i

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 individuals in the populations and species. ↗

— George C. Williams

#assumption #book #characterizes #criticism #directed

Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#also #both #brought #brutality #building

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#always #definite #experience #field #origin

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#been #books #few #i #know

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#change #consequence #consists #described #diversification

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#adapt #adaptation #become #came #did

I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today." "Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial." "Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy? ↗

— Melissa Nathan

#pride-and-prejudice-adaptation #sexy #women #beauty

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#change #individuality #life #variety #change