Series Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations.

  Pope John Paul II

  Roots, Civilization, Economic Inequality

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion events which cannot later be recalled.

  Henry D. Moyle

  Decision, Events, Introducing

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• Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

  Katharine Weber

  Loss, Sometimes, Ends

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.118, Crown

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• This celebration of The Bible will inspire people around the world to rediscover a beloved text in new ways. This is a passion project nurtured with love and care by Mark Burnett, Roma Downey and the entire creative team. I was thoroughly impressed by the deep faith expressed throughout this epic series.

  Craig Detweiler

  Team, Passion, Epic

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• Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You do not write copy, you assemble it. You are working with a series of building blocks, you are putting the building blocks together, and then you are putting them in certain structures, you are building a little city of desire for your person to come and live in.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Block, Writing, Cities

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• "Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's that good.

  David Bianculli

  Drama, Years, Next Year

  "In 'Transparent,' A 70-Year-Old Divorced Dad Comes Out As A Woman". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. September 26, 2014.

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• Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Mean, Roots

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• Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?

  Christopher Meloni

  New York, Uprising, Two

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• Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Drawing, Movement, Kind

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• We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

  John Spratt

  Moving, High Heels, Years

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• The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.

  Michel de Certeau

  Art, Journey, Hiking

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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