#secondary

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#always #am #causes #chose #create

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point. ↗

— David Simon

#does #feel #i #i think #life