Series Quotes - Page 11

• To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspiration, Writing, People

  Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.214, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Years

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• The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Writing, Discovery, Composition

  E. L. Doctorow, Christopher D. Morris (1999). “Conversations with E.L. Doctorow”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.

  Jon Snow

  Photography, Moving, Thinking

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• Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Sunday, Today

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• Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

  Merlin Olsen

  Football, Simple, Self

  "Who's Better, Who's Best in Football?: Setting the Record Straight on the Top 60 NFL Players of the Past 60 Years". Book by Steve Silverman, 2009.

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• Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Teaching, Learning, Lessons

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• If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Perfection

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• This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived. I have little doubt of our having pre-existed; and that also in the time of our pre-existence we were actively employed. So, therefore, I believe in our active employment in a future life, and I like the thought.

  Charles George Gordon

  Believe, Doubt, Employment

  Charles George Gordon (1881). “Colonel Gordon in Central Africa, 1874-1879: With a Portrait; and Map of the Country Prepared Under Colonel Gordon's Supervision”

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• Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Jargon, Envelopes, Way

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• Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in which two contracting parties always both gain; consequently, society is an uninterrupted succession of advantages, unceasingly renewed for all its members.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Party, Two

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• We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival and well-being. We are convinced that this negotiation process must not be viewed as a traditional series of governmental trade-offs, but as an urgent international effort to safeguard human lives, homes, rights and livelihoods.

  Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

  Believe, Home, Rights

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• Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.

  Timothy Fuller

  Life, Mind, Trying

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• Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.

  Rick Warren

  Success, Opportunity, Effectiveness

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• A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

  Gisela Richter

  Inspirational, Mistake, Failure

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• From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Two

  George Lucas, Donald F. Glut, James Kahn (1997). “The Star Wars trilogy”, GuildAmerica Books

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• By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.

  Gary Oldman

  People, Might, Way

  "Gary Oldman: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, Team, White

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• You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

  Gloria Grahame

  Valleys, Peaks And Valleys

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

  Jack Kirby

  Interesting, Answers, Life Is

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• If I hadn’t done Bond, I wouldn’t have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.

  Maryam d'Abo

  America, Different, Done

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• My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

  Martin Milner

  Character, Air, Worry

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• I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.

  Karl Malden

  Play, Tvs, Workaholic

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• When you read the [Twilight series], it's like saying 'Edward Cullen is so beautiful I creamed myself'. I mean every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do it. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year old virgin, so there's clearly some issues there

  Robert Pattinson

  Beautiful, Hate, Twilight

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