It’s ridiculous. My life’s been a series of happy accidents.
With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren’t going to wait years and years for the next book.
I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don’t. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I’ll come back to.
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.
I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
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.
Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I’m pleased I’ve been diving with consistency.
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 don’t want to be one of those great players who never made it to the Series.
I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
All too often, a corporate innovation initiative starts and ends with a board meeting mandate to the CEO followed by a series of memos to the staff, with lots of posters and one-day workshops. This typically creates ‘innovation theater’ but very little innovation.
The days when the words ‘Hollywood actor’ framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics – candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike – is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
I recently finished a job, an HBO movie ‘Getting On,’ a very dark comedy. It comes from a British series of the same name. In this role I have no hair, no make up and no nails. I play a very small role; she is not over the top and sassy.
It doesn’t matter on ‘Big Brother’ how big you are, anyone can dominate the series.
One never wants to do anything that’s going to break that ‘sculpture of the character’ that’s been done so far, or make anything that’s been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you’re doing a series of films that has a continuous character.
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’
The book is really, really dark, to the point where some people that I’ve talked to have said that it could be a series. And I’m like, Where? VH1? It’s a little hard for VH1.
Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.
I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.
I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that’s had a full season run, but to actually be on one that’s gotten picked up for a second season.
Catharsis isn’t art. You can’t rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something’s shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That’s not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.
A good night in is a series of documentaries.
A good night in is a series of documentaries.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.
I always designed ‘Gravity Falls’ to be a finite series about one epic summer-a series with a beginning, middle, and end.
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.
Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
As far as the ‘Mad Men’ thing, I love ‘Mad Men.’ It’s one of my favorite shows; I think it’s an amazing series.
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.
‘Heirs’ is really a good drama. Everyone put out their heart and soul into this series, from the actors to the whole staff. That’s why I think we won awards for this drama.
I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn’t looking to do a series.
For sheer creativity and totality of involvement, ‘Rolf’s Cartoon Club’ with HTV in Bristol was an amazing show to work on, but I think the ‘Rolf on Art’ series, culminating in the painting of the Queen’s portrait to celebrate her 80th birthday, just nudges into the favourite spot.
There’s nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.
I am unashamed to say that I have a super-crush on Kate Oates, the series producer of ‘Coronation Street.’
I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.
My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.
I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of ‘Postman Pat.’ It has been a joy to do.
You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don’t know what I want. I don’t want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.
When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you’re required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.
Sheridan is still there, he’s the president of the Alliance, everything that was in place when the series is there is still there, we’re just moving the camera over a couple of light years.
As for ‘Independence Day,’ we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
The beauty of any conspiracy theory is that because it can’t be proved, that just makes it more ‘real.’ It’s not a question of believing or not believing, really; it’s more a question of just accepting a series of probabilities that lead to an undeniable conclusion.
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
My time on TV has been awesome; between ‘Party Of Five’ and ‘Ghost Whisperer,’ I’ve been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences’ hearts.
Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
I’ve been offered a lot of police series, but I’m very good at staying away from them. They’re usually based on such a boring formula.
I do sincerely hope the Cubs win a World Series. After I die.
It suits me to be in a series that takes ages to film.
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
I actually don’t watch much TV, but my goal is to watch ‘Downton Abbey.’ I want to catch up on the series… that’s like my style.
I was World Series champion in individual and synchro for the first time which was awesome.
If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome – my last tour almost caused it.
