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Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

You feel quite strangely secure [doing any kind of series]. It's the opposite of how you're supposed to feel doing a movie.

There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same, to go back and try to improve whatever you did in the last movie, which never happens.

I don't know how people will remember this series [of the Twilight Saga] at all. It's crazy how intense people are.

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

Series work is just grueling.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness.

I made a few movies in Holland for a lot of TV series. I came to Los Angeles and for the last 10 years, I made a lot of feature films - all kinds of low budget action movies for the studios.

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.

No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.

I'm sure that a French production of this [Maigret series] would be different. For better or worse, who's to say, but probably not very good for 8 o'clock on ITV.

Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.

The media is one rather than a series of different entities that are competing against each other.

After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them.

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.

Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun.

I feel for today's leaders. I really do. They got to where they are by doing a series of jobs exceptionally well. And that doesn't help them at all with the challenges they now face.

I watched some of Lost series. And I realized that the character they wanted me to play didn't really come in for a long time. It would have just been the wrong thing for me to do.

With this particular series [The Cursed Wheel] I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity of the mythology.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.

It's definitely scary to follow a book that's been turned into a Netflix series and found as much success as Girlboss did.

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.

I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.

I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.

I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can spend some time, so it's a bit more like reading a good novel, if you like.

I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer.

Body is the name of a series of changes.

What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes.

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

'Teachers Lounge' is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn 'Lounge' into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time.