I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.
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Related Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Useful though they are, the vast majority of dictionaries and encyclopedias are poker-faced pieces o... TERRY TEACHOUT In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are... VIGGO MORTENSEN 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the par... SAMUEL JOHNSON 'Analyze This' is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But... 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'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... JON RONSON For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovatio... STEVE CASE There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot th... ANDIE MACDOWELL Staying with them was good, but I don't think that any of us believe they are better than we are. Gi... MARIA PRETNAR Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart. ADRIANNE PALICKI I wouldn't use that phrase. Obviously, there are very difficult issues in front of them, but the par... JOE LOCKHART There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial... TIM WISE There are a couple of Japan teams out there that are really looking good, ... I love sushi. CARL PAVANO I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil ... 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RITA HAYWORTH There's no way that a third party wins without being in the presidential debates. I think the va... GARY JOHNSON I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n... RUTH NEGGA Many of the fires that we see in college housing, in fact [the] vast majority of them, are preventab... ED COMEAU I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true... TOBE HOOPER There are a couple of other guys here that can play first base and can come in and do the job any ti... ELI MARRERO The vast majority of them are things that riders have done and they were warned not to do. BILL CARLSON There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who... CHRIS CORNELL There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most. CASEY STONER When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.... EVAN WILLIAMS All movies are good if we are attentive to the social message that it conveys often in a subdued ton... ANUJ SOMANY Black lives certainly do matter - that's one thing. But, it's just that in every profession,... REGINALD VELJOHNSON I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, a... EDGAR WRIGHT There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourit... BIANCA WALKDEN There are no Muslim terrorists. There are terrorists. There are criminals who claim to be Muslims. W... PAUL HAWKINS A nation is safer and progressive when the citizens own or are involved in healthy businesses that c... IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no d... AMANDA CREW That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tric... ZOE FOSTER BLAKE We feel that the vast, vast majority of 16-year-olds are able to drive safely. DAVE DRUKER I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good ... BILL MUMY The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background me... MIREILLE GUILIANO Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ... HAIM SHAPIRA There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others lik... WARREN E. BURGER Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the ... 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Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY There's nothing better than a good, blind referee. BOBBY HEENAN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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