Series Quotes - Page 39

• I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it.

  Derek Jacobi

  Fun, Character, People

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• There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

  Helena Christensen

  Gone, Care, Speed

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

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• There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.

  Jim Henson

  Afternoon, Television, Littles

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• When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

  Nicholas Lea

  Way, Audience, New Ways

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

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• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  Yancy Butler

  Proud, Standpoint, Could Have Been

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• The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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• What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.

  Roy H. Williams

  Mean, Two, Yield

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• Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Order

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• The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Book, Character, Interesting

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• Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust.

  Thomas Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, Animal

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• I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Literature, Want, Realizing

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• I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Team, Thinking

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• In this millennium that we live in, the 'Hack-a-Shaq'has proven not to work. It might work a couple games every now and then, but when it comes to the playoffs or a championship series, it doesn't work - not at all.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Couple, Games

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• Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.

  Edgar Schein

  Commitment, Atheism, Identity

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• Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Blessing, Giving, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

  Harry Lennix

  Onions, Want, Layers

  "Harry Lennix Talks THE BLACKLIST, Joining the Series, Facing off with James Spader, Character Backstory, and Announcing BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN at Comic-Con". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 2, 2013.

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• I don't really have a nemesis, but I have a series of hundreds of small enemies that fuel me. Everyone I meet I assume is out to get me and that fuels my fire on a daily basis.

  Tina Fey

  Fire, Enemy, Fuel

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2010.

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• I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the sound off. You should be able to watch a movie without the sound and understand what's going on. That's your job, to build a series of chronological images that tell the story.

  Channing Tatum

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon.

  Betty White

  Blessing, Two, Three

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.

  Leon Trotsky

  Thinking, Law, Doe

  Leon Trotsky (1973). “Problems of everyday life, and other writings on culture & science”, Anchor Foundation

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• I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then.

  Humphrey Lyttelton

  Book, Air, Band

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• Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity -
  what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented
  horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores,
  the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

  William S. Burroughs

  Christian, War, Charity

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• The Lord recently spoke a powerful word to me, 'No more delay!' This word has many applications, which the Lord led me to release as a series of prophetic decrees during Glory of Zion’s recent Head of The Year Conference.

  Dutch Sheets

  Powerful, Zion, Years

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• Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.

  Madhur Mittal

  Strong, Character, Play

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• Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.

  James Frain

  Character, Space, Focus

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