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It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

A series is filled with compromises.

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.

Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.

That was the good thing about having different directors [on series]. You had to stay on your toes.

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

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

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.

And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.

The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

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

Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.

In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.

Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.