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These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.
What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.
When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.
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.
People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.
We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.
The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.
I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in a row, there will be a consistency of tone.
Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.
When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.
The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series.
We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.
What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.
In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.
The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.
What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.
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?
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.
And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.
Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.
A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?
An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.
It is quite different, but I love doing a series because you get to live with a character for a much longer amount of time. And the other aspect of it is that you have a steady job.
Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.
The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.
There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.
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.
Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.
I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.