Building on our strong track record of supporting developing countries, including in areas like climate justice, human rights, gender and education, Ireland recognises that vulnerable communities need very considerable assistance in adapting to climate change.
If you start adapting to audiences, you’re really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.
It was not very difficult for me to adjust in WWE because of my previous experience. Stylistically, this company is quite different from other promotions, but adapting to it is part of the job.
When you’re writing plays, it’s possible to believe you don’t have any real world skill. When you’re adapting, it is really all about the mechanics, so you feel closer to, I don’t know, an accountant or someone who has a body of information. It’s not all about temperament.
I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.
There’s nothing wrong with the classic ways of adapting stuff.
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.
Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It’s more about that same story being filtered through somebody else’s sensibility.
I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
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.
I’d love to be involved in the process of adapting a book to a script, but that’s simply not my job.
I was taken aback by the amount of interest, due to my colour, that exploded when we got engaged. It has developed into a good conversation which has changed the way Britain is adapting. I am glad to be part of that, though I didn’t do it on purpose! I just happened to fall in love.
I believe in books. I believe more in ‘cross-media’ – how characters are adapting across mediums.
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for ‘Woman’s Hour’ and the ‘Classic’ series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
My job is called adaptation. It’s always about adapting to new situations, but the core team is going to be the same.
It’s important for automated cars to be able to drive in a human-like fashion – and that does mean adapting to the driving patterns around you.
Completely committed to adapting ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing climate change – this means reducing emissions, adapting to impacts, and enhancing and improving carbon sinks.
Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn’t grow up in the ’90s without knowing about ‘Tiger Eyes’ and reading it. It should’ve been assigned to all teenage girls.
I’m quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert’s early work. ‘The Dark’… But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of ‘War of the Worlds’ until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet.
If you’re not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can’t think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can’t get an answer from someone until 5 o’clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn’t get too exciting after a while.
When Peter Schneider first approached me about adapting ‘Sister Act’ for the stage, it wasn’t a slam dunk to say yes.
For ‘So Cold the River,’ I’m actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for ‘The Fighter,’ and who also wrote ‘8 Mile,’ which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I’m learning a lot.
Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I’m not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called ‘Rule Of The Bone.’ I didn’t do a very good job. I didn’t really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.
I’ve been adapting ever since my oldest had her first play date with a boy, and I was like, ‘That’s not normal,’ because I came from the old school. Now boys sleep over at my house. It doesn’t matter which girl, which age.
I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can’t stay the same.
Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.
If you’re going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit.
Cinema is a director’s medium, so you’re saying, ‘What do you want?’ Being an actor is about adapting – physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I’m willing to do that too.
Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
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.
You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
When you’re adapting a novel, there are always scenes taken out of the book, and no matter which scenes they are, it’s always someone’s favorite. As a screenwriter, you realize, ‘Well, it doesn’t work if you include everyone’s favorite scenes.’
The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‘What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?’
Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic – less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don’t agree.
If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I’m not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.
Constantly adapting yourself to changing times is a very integral part of a successful person’s personality because change is the only constant, and one should have the ability to change and adapt to change with time.
For Internacional I played in several different positions, so I have no problem adapting.
Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.
I am a player who finds it easy to adapt to the circumstances, and I don’t think I would have had a problem adapting to England.
In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.
I think when a new manager who has a specific way of playing comes to any league, he doesn’t think about adapting but rather looks for ways to slowly implement his style so it can be developed for years to come.
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