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This collection holds 260 adaptation quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Charlie Kaufman, Tom Stoppard and Ernest Bramah.

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Writing is a journey into the unknown.

I really enjoy working on adaptations.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

I am a student of evolution and adaptation.

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.

Adaptation is the forgotten word of climate change.

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.

Shakti' is a very loose adaptation of 'Not Without My Daughter.'

I think all the history of the Jewish people is about adaptation.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.'

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Working with a new style of choreography is always a period of adaptation.

Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

My adaptation on the pitch has gone in parallel with my adaptation to London.

After I saw 'Katha Parayumbol,' I agreed to do the Tamil adaptation of the film.

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations.

As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.

In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.

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

Vipul Shah wanted me to do the Hindi adaptation of my film 'Kaakha Kaakha.' I declined the offer.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

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