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• I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are not what they might be. It begins with a sense of a lack, of something missing, and that provokes a series of questions.

  Simon Critchley

  Philosophy, Missing, Realization

  "Demand Everything!". Interview with Anders Gullestad, www.truth-out.org. May 15, 2010.

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• I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I’ve been so absorbed in the last few series that I’d sort of forgotten that it wasn’t real.

  Frank Cottrell Boyce

  Real, Writing, Lasts

  "Doctor Who: Frank Cottrell Boyce is a genius, says Steven Moffat" by Morgan Jeffrey, www.digitalspy.com. July 04, 2014.

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• The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.

  Terry Teachout

  Moon, Years, Butchers

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• Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.

  Armond White

  Potters, Harry Potter Series, Has Beens

  "Armond White, You Need A Friend" by Justin Alvarez, www.guernicamag.com. July 20, 2011.

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• People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

  Marcel Dionne

  Regret, Hockey, Winning

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• Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition!

  Julia Spencer-Fleming

  Writing, Gold, Pace

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• George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the Bond machine firing on all cylinders: superb editing and photography, incredible score, great setpieces. The most romantic in the series, and it actually has, of all things, a tragic ending.

  Christopher Nolan

  Photography, Editing, Machines

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• I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

  Dennis Farina

  Tvs, Said, Wanted

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• At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.

  Jackie Robinson

  World, Emotion, Anthem

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• We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Pain, Perspective, Important

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.166, Routledge

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• We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

  Susan Sontag

  Choices, Understanding, Facts

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.259, Macmillan

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• I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

  J. G. Ballard

  Mind, Landscape, Feels

  Conversation with George MacBeth, BBC3, February 01, 1967.

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• Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Past, Men, Decision

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.559, Transaction Publishers

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• It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

  Minor White

  Want, Groups, Photographer

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• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  Ted Lindsay

  Attitude, Hockey, Rumor

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• I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.

  Bridget Riley

  Squares, Giving, Essentials

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• Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!

  Harlan Ellison

  Stars, War, Doctors

  "Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang". Book by Terrance Dicks. Introduction, p. 7, 1977.

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• Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend and step off before it is discredited.

  George Soros

  Lying, Economic History, Trends

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• Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

  Antonio Gramsci

  Revolution, Spirit, Creation

  "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.

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• The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Struggle, Teaching, Men

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• Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

  E. Lockhart

  Astonishment, Hours, Should

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.46, Delacorte Press

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• Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

  Daniel Libeskind

  Interesting, Statistics, Obvious

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• I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept

  Anne McCaffrey

  Book, Needs, Mood

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• Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.

  Harold Kerzner

  Art, Creating, Dumb

  Harold Kerzner (2009). “Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons

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• Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

  Deborah Tannen

  Communication, Life Is, Conversation

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.13, Harper Collins

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