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• I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.

  Holly Johnson

  Writing, Littles, Biographies

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• When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

  Damon Lindelof

  Understanding, Blade Runner, World

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• I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

  Connie Willis

  Hate, Book, Firsts

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• Possibly. I know on set, they were talking about ‘oh, a sequel’ or something. That would be way down the road, because this one we just finished. So, [I’m] not even thinking about that again. But they could be thinking about it. That would be fun.

  Elle Fanning

  Fun, Thinking, Talking

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• I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

  Jessica Biel

  Texas, Fans, Firsts

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• You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.

  Mark Strong

  Jobs, Past, These Days

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.

  Graham Nelson

  Plot, Gone, Use

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• As far as expense, I think if 'Twilight' does well enough, then we should be able to do the big expensive stuff for the sequels. I mean, we have to have werewolves, there's no way around it. They have to be there.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Mean, Thinking

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• I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Writing, Kind, Remakes

  "Interview: The Host & Mother Writer/Director Bong Joon-ho". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. March 15, 2010.

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• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  Sam Raimi

  Made, Audience, Ifs

  Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 21, 2007.

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• For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

  Plato

  Army, Fighting, Men

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.80

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• When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that's the predecessor, you cannot do anything to tread on that, so it's a bit trickier than just being able to sit down and write something.

  Troy Duffy

  Writing, Down And, Sacred

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...

  Woody Allen

  Quality, Half, Toilets

  "Woody Allen on Film Funding + Thoughts on Change". BBC Interview, www.youtube.com. 2011.

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• One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean.

  Roger Ebert

  Mean, Pie, Hopeful

  Roger Ebert (2003). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004”, p.24, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Ideas, Clubs

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• I never had a story for the sequels, for the last trilogy. That's not really part of the plan at this point, and I'll be at the age where to do another trilogy would take 10 years. I'd always envisioned it as six movies. When you see it in six parts you'll understand that it really ends at part six.

  George Lucas

  Years, Age, Lasts

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• Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.

  William Katt

  Rip, Dollars, Audience

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• I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Boys, Years, Play

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• As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

  John Goodman

  Guy, Monsters, Pixar

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger has been offered a role in a sequel to 'The Terminator.' In this one he travels back in time and kills the person who suggested he run for governor.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Roles, Schwarzenegger

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• Even if it's a sequel, lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Thinking, Games, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

  John Burroughs

  Goodbye, Running, Sweet

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.91, Syracuse University Press

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• On playing Batman and his daughter: If I was doing the sequel to Frozen I would be a hero. My two older daughters could give a sh-t about Batman and they've now passed that affection onto my son. He's always like, 'Papa, can I watch Frozen?' And I'm like, 'No, dude, it's not on again!'.

  Ben Affleck

  Daughter, Mother, Hero

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• We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Years, Scripts

  "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

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