Linear Quotes
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It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.
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Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.
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There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you have to have a script sometimes, but that alone isn't enough.
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Linear time has one claim to grandeur: it is the tragic aspect of Time
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Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.
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I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
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The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.
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Alix MacKenzie was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to Joan Miró as opposed to my more static exploration of space.
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I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
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I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.
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Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.
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Despite the invention of time machines, we keep being linear.
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I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the world, but if you look at them from a slight angle there's more than meets the eye.
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The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
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My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
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Sometimes you have to play it a couple of times sometimes to really hear it. Even for me because I write my style of writing is very stream of conscious. So it's hard sometimes to explain my work because it's not really linear to anything ...
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Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.
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I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.
