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Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

Marshall McLuhan

Space, Doe, Photograph

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Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.

James Sallis

Running, Memories, Motivation

James Sallis (2012). “Black Hornet”, p.13, Oldcastle Books

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A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the
act of turning a page.

John Maeda

Book, Skills, Pieces

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I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.

Joan Didion

Cutting, Variables, Rooms

Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.6, Zola Books

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The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music.

Oliver Sacks

Drama, Simple, Narrative

Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on his shirt and more too because the mirror in the hall has given up the ghost. A shipwrecked man without an anchor in the world except in his own liquid thoughts where time has lost its sequence.

Per Petterson

Men, Anchors, Eggs

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I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.

Zhuangzi

Death, Grief, Air

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A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

Herbert Wilf

Numbers, Mathematics, Clotheslines

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In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it

Rosie Perez

Taken, Reality, Issues

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Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and energy of the sun. Although there was a sequence in the formation of the land sphere, the atmosphere, the water sphere, and the life sphere, these have so interacted with one another in the shaping of the Earth that we must somehow think of these as all present to one another and interacting from the beginning.

Thomas Berry

Life, Thinking, Light

Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.28, Crown

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The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

Alexander Fraser Tytler

Spiritual, Average, Years

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The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is essentially the same thing. I just live my life with eyes and ears perhaps a little bit wider open than some people. Whatever bothers me or seems off kilter or in need of parody-or on a serious subject, in need of examination-in the past I had done a sequence about it. Now I write a column about it.

Peter Funt

Art, Eye, Writing

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Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

Brandon Boyd

Ideas, People, Excited

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For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.

Hilary Mantel

Running, Book, Together

"The joys of stationery" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2010.

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'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be another. At the same time, 'Love' has a modern feel. For example: In one scene, these astronauts go through a wormhole sequence, and you feel like you're being slapped around inside your head by a sonic boom.

Tom DeLonge

Example, Like You, Time Love

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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

Movie, Writing, Hands

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I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Robert Wyatt

Numbers, Needs, Pieces

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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

Laura Linney

Intelligent, Casting, Groups

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Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

Jet Li

Long, Different, Needs

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Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

Ang Lee

Fighting, Thinking, Hands

"Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

John Cusack

Stars, Used, Adoration

"Being John Cusack". Interview With Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 23, 2009.

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That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.

Tom Robbins

Organization, Creative, Brain

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Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears and speaks a few words of wisdom, solving a previously insoluble problem, or something in a recent dream transpires in reality. Suddenly the existence of God seems confirmed.

Dean Koontz

Dream, Life Changing, Reality

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There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives.

Elliot Perlman

Mean, Views, Two

"Seven Types of Ambiguity". Book by Elliot Perlman, 2003.

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Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.

Salman Rushdie

Moving, Castles, Tumbling

Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.543, Macmillan

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