“Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.” YearsLongHas BeensNiceSeriesWorking ItVacationLooking For WorkLong Vacation Author:Rob Mariano
“When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.” PeopleHas BeensBookCharacterAbleMillionsPressureSeries Author:Nikki Reed
“But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.” IfsHas BeensDoneOpportunityExistenceFateRegretMadnessSeriesDenyArroganceSoleRemorseCould Have BeenTwistedMissed OpportunityOppurtunity Author:Oriana Fallaci
“It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.” Has BeensSeemsPositionResponsibleSeriesIntoleranceImpatienceProvocation Author:Robert Hugh Benson
“I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking at there is contained a unique series of rhythms... A shiver down the spine arrives to prove the validity of such an encounter.” Has BeensFormProveUniqueSeriesRhythmRecognitionEncountersSpineValidityShiverConjunctions Author:Graham Sutherland
“Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.” WritingMindHumansMayHas BeensStoriesSeemsFilmMotivationPrinciplesNovelProductsEssentialsRaisesSeriesContactAliensComplexityHuman MindFifthAmbiguityDelayedDisregarded Author:James Gunn
“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” LifeInspirationalHas BeensLife IsInspirational LifeSeriesThis LifeLive LifeLife ChangingLive Your LifeBad AssMeaningful LifeCollisionLife Is Worth Living Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.” NeedsHas BeensEndsStrongSeriesFinishedReviewsFlattering Author:George R. R. Martin
“Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.” ThinkingLooksMayChildrenHas BeensSometimesFilmFacesProcessChangedTelevisionInvolvedOffersFellowsSeriesChecksNovelistsCashInvitedNaiveTruckDumpStunnedPremieres Author:George R. R. Martin
“A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.” Has BeensBookStoriesPagesSeriesFinals Author:Richard Denney