Series Quotes - Page 2

• Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Self Esteem, Team

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• Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Fans, Intense

  "George R. R. Martin talks 'Game of Thrones' as the HBO show's 'Daenerys' departs". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. April 29, 2010.

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• I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.

  George R. R. Martin

  Believe, Writing, Skills

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

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• Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Rocks, Climbing

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

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• I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.

  Marlee Matlin

  Couple, Oscars, Naysayers

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• Life is a series of commas, not periods.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Inspirational, Life, Periods

  "The McConaissance or 'I Wear No Mask'" by Timothy Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2014.

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• Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

  Margaret Mead

  Humanity, Together, Woven

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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  The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

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• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Family, Cousin, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• 2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Years, Great Year

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• Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

  Joyce Meyer

  Long, Sometimes, Habit

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• The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

  Arthur Miller

  Real, Feelings, Cost

  "Tv's custom-tailored 'salesman'" by Don Shewwy, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1985.

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• Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

  Alan Moore

  Cereal, Television, Breakfast

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

  Andy Murray

  Watches, Paper, Stuff

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• Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Pale Fire "Commentary" (1962)

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• If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Events, Looks, Film

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• 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

  Gary Ross

  Gratitude, Book, Kids

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• I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

  Portia de Rossi

  Acting, Downtown, Driving

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

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• Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Police, Wire

  "Salman Rushdie Calls Game of Thrones ‘Well-Produced Trash’" by Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. October 17, 2011.

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• In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

  Salman Rushdie

  Artist, Men, Mad

  "Salman Rushdie says TV dramas comparable to novels". www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2011.

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• Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Character, Men

  "Salman Rushdie says TV dramas comparable to novels" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fun, Games, Clothes

  "Interview / Salman Rushdie Is Not Afraid". Interview with Gidi Weitz, www.haaretz.com. October 14, 2011.

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• It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Two, Fans

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• Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

  Curt Schilling

  Sports, Spring, Games

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