Sequence Quotes - Page 9

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

John Woo

Evil, Messages, Violence

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Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence of the human genetic code. This amazing accomplishment is likely to affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. I believe that the 21st century will be the century of life sciences, and nothing makes that point more clearly than this momentous discovery. It will revolutionize medicine as we know it today.

Edward Kennedy

Believe, Science, Dna

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What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.

Sven Birkerts

Reading, Destiny, Ideas

Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.101, Macmillan

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I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I want to end.

John Sayles

Writing, Character, Knowing

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... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to become children of God instead of children of flesh and blood if we have faith in His Name (cf. Jn. 1:12-13). For the Savior the sequence was, first of all, incarnation and bodily birth for my sake; and so thereupon the birth in the Spirit through baptism, originally spurned by Adam, for the sake of my salvation and restoration by grace, or, to describe it even more vividly, my very remaking.

Maximus the Confessor

Christian, Spiritual, Children

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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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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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You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

Iain Banks

Writing, Character, Feelings

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Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

Jon M. Chu

Fighting, Doe, Different

"Director Jon M. Chu Talks Directing Action, Being a G.I. JOE Fan, Getting to Know the Cast, the Soundtrack and Possible PSAs on the Set of G.I. JOE: RETALIATION". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. March 14, 2013.

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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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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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A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

Francis Crick

Ideas, Mutation, Finals

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On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

Wes Anderson

Order, Way, Foxes

"Cannes 2012: Wes Anderson on Making 'Moonrise Kingdom' and His Cannes Debut". Interview with Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 15, 2012.

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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.

Tana French

Book, Writing, Acting

"Tana French: I'm haunted by Ireland's ghost estates" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.

James J. Kilpatrick

Writing, Asking Why, Childhood

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It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.

Robert Dabney

Education, Children, Plato

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When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

Gregory Maguire

Book, Writing, Pages

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The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

Naomi Klein

Events, Today, Violence

Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.240, Macmillan

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In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes.

Donna Farhi

Success, Yoga, Practice

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I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

Jon Lord

Use, Way, Classical Music

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With Jerry Bruckheimer, you know you'll get your money's worth. You're getting huge action sequences, it's going to be funny, and you know it's going to look great.

Jerry O'Connell

Looks, Action, Jerry

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A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound...a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.

Sir John Woodroffe

Letters, Way, Sound

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I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.

David O. Russell

Stars, Black And White, Men

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Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.

Brian Sibley

Cutting, Two, Example

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They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Thinking, Humanity

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