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I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

George Hickenlooper

He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

The 5th Wave

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Regarding the Pain of Others

Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.

Some Danger Involved

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.

Skinwalker

Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as ‘too long.

Musings on Minutiae

Why are you looking at me? His eyes search mine for several long seconds before he holds contact and whispers, " Because I like your face.

Leo

Ties to people on the other side of the storm could be severed. Love could bud, then wither and die without a bloom when the storm ended and reality bled back in.

Snowbound

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

The Stormy Petrel

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

-I’m looking for a man—  -There are several suspects in Topeka, Ks. that match that description. Why don’t you try there first?

This Book Has No Title

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Villette

He suggested several unpleasant, unsanitary things I could do to myself at my earliest convenience.

The Wise Man's Fear

The three rules of journalism are 1. Mislead, 2. Misinform, and 3. Misdirect. The news serves to sever you from reality and keep you in Fantasy Land.

Xazaqazax

Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.

Caroline Knapp

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

David Brin

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

George Catlin

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

Jonathan Carroll

Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.

James Gray

There wasn't a human being for several kilometers around, not a news-stand, not a shop, not a café, not a school. Not a cat, not a skinhead. Nothing.

Television