#adapting

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

— Bret Easton Ellis

#characters #christian #cinematic #committed #completely

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#family #relationships #family

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#american #bare #battery #been #brown

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#cinema #cost #culture #harm #losing

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#adapting #anybody #books #enjoy #i

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. ↗

— William Hague

#brussels #building #competitiveness #concentrated #eu

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#alive #cell #continually #identity #impossibilities

Planning is helpful. If you don’t know what you want, you’ll seldom get it. But, no matter how well you plan, you will fare better if you expect the unexpected. The unexpected, by nature, comes unseen, unthought, unenvisioned. All you can do is plan to go unplanned, prepare to be unprepared, make going with the flow part of your agenda, for the most successful among us envision, plan, and prepare, but cast all aside as needed, while those who are unable to go with the flow often suffer, if they survive. ↗

— David W. Jones

#flexibility #flow #going-with-the-flow #nature

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#blood #book #desperate #even #feel

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#after #assist #created #i #i can