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Music is a big part of the director's life; Ms. Coppola's previous feature, a screen adaptation of 'The Virgin Suicides,' was informed more substantially by the score by the group Air than by the narrative.

~Elvis Mitchell

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In 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s lower-depths novel, Jared Leto has lost so much weight, he looks like another person altogether.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Adaptation Altogether Another Director Dream He Like Looks Lost Much Novel Person Requiem Weight

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The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Adaptation Arrived Books Equivalent Film Form Harry Harry Potter May Peculiar Phenomenon Potter Ready Rowling Stone Tape World

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Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

~Ernst Haeckel

Topics: Action Adaptation Arises Both Branches Causal Closest Connection Evolutionary Heredity In My Opinion Laws Opinion Reciprocal Science

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

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Adaptation Always Definite Experience Field Origin Science Some Thought

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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

Topics: Adaptation Change Consequence Consists Diversification Evolution Fact Gene Geneticist Ignoring Phenomena Quite Separate Simply Totally Two

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I was 17 when I first acted on stage. I was a part of an Urdu adaptation of 'Spartacus' in the titular role.

~Fawad Khan

Topics: Acted Adaptation First Part Role Stage Urdu

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

~Frank Darabont

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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

~Franz Boas

Topics: Adaptation Been Case Every Exceeding Full History Impossible Insistence Look Opportunities Path Powers Process Quiet Remember Single Steadfast Your

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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

Topics: Adaptation Been Books Few Know Novelists Satisfied Screen Truth Truth Is Very Who

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