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• It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

  Francis Crick

  Molecules, Acid, Determined

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• Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Ignorance, Together, Panic

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• ...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories.

  Neil Postman

  Perseverance, Thinking, Victory

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.146, Penguin

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• Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Fighting, Talking

  "Interview:Benjamin Bratt" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.

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• Jazz is capable of doing much more than depicting the dope fiend and the drunk and the slinky gal. In our show there are many very funny sequences where we were able to use jazz as it can be used-in a happy way.

  Henry Mancini

  Dope, Drunk, Use

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• Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Believe, Character

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• When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Fashion, Art, Play

  "Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman" by Ingmar Bergman, (Introduction), 1960.

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• I always enjoy the battle sequences. It's like going to the playground.

  Drew Roy

  Battle, Enjoy, Playgrounds

  Source: collider.com

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• Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

  Bill Kraus

  Artist, Cities, People

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• Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

  Ed Parker

  Principles, Precedence

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• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  Iain Banks

  Fun, Writing, Effort

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• How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.

  Francis Crick

  Groups, Acid, Backbone

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• The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.

  Walter Lippmann

  Maturity, Discovery, Names

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• When working on my choreography I am not always receptive to outside suggestions or opinions. I believe that if you have something in mind in the way of a creation, such as a new dance, a sequence, or an effect, you are certain to come up with inaccurate criticism and damaging results if you go around asking for opinions.

  Fred Astaire

  Believe, Mind, Criticism

  "Steps in Time" by Fred Astaire, (p. 6), 1959.

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• Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioural sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performng the act but does not do so, tehn it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Motivation, Opportunity

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• The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward.

  Dan Scanlon

  Moving Forward, Scary, Wrapping Up

  Source: collider.com

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• I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Song

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.

  Stan Brakhage

  Drama, Black And White, Discovery

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• To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Simple, Swings

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• Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Destiny, Hands, Missing

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1972). “Transparent things: a novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

  Ayn Rand

  Plot, Three, Scene

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.348, Penguin

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• Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

  Erik Erikson

  Generations, Abandoned, Loses

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Insight and Responsibility”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Just movies in general. It's such a wonderful business as much as you feel, you are fine tuning your craft, every movie is a completely different challenge. Every fight sequence is different. Every action set piece. I enjoy that.

  Len Wiseman

  Fighting, Movies In General, Challenges

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you think, "Let me make sure this goes with this so it's like a story."

  Juicy J

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot keep it up for more than a few minutes. Visual impressions, reflections of hands in lacquered wood, a diligent bald spot over a fiddle, take over, and soon I am bored beyond measure by the motions of the musicians.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Reflection, Hands, Bored

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