The Next One Quotes - Page 7

• Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Stories, Done

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.109, Penguin

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• Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

  Marie of Romania

  Jealous, Eye, Power

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• We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Jumping

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• The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lasts, Next, Looking Forward

  "Big Brother: A Novel". Book by Lionel Shriver, 2013.

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• Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Challenges, Lessons

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.92, Penguin

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• Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

  David Rudisha

  Climbing Up, Race, Training

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• I try to craft books that are fun, that are sort of subversively educational so kids learn but they don't really feel like they're being lectured to, and I want kids to always finish one of my books and think, "That was great, where's the next one?"

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Educational, Book

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Generations, Lasts, Next

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.151, Faber & Faber

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• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  Rani Mukerji

  Party, Hard Work, Sorrow

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• Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

  Grant Achatz

  Goal, Tape, Looks

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• Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person's going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So the trick is: don't give them one.

  Amy Hempel

  Reading, Writing, Giving

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• You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.

  Roger Zelazny

  Battle, Lasts, Next

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.

  Paul Muni

  Play, Crash, Planes

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

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• Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I aint gonna live the next one.

  Fetty Wap

  Next, Just Live, Plans

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• Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.

  Tom Thomson

  Philosophy, Next, Wave

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• I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

  Joss Whedon

  Momentum, Stories, Next

  "Joss Whedon, Amy Acker, and Alexis Denisof Q&A". Interview with Sarah Dobbs, www.denofgeek.com. June 13, 2013.

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  Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

  Joe Strummer

  Past, Want, Next

  "Armed Combat". Sounds Magazine Interview, July 17, 1982.

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• When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

  Emilio Ambasz

  Answers, Next, Architecture

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• It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

  Odilon Redon

  Regret, Next, Imperfect

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• You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

  Anne Lamott

  Rags, Stitches, Next

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• Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Ideas, Design

  "Karl Lagerfeld to Launch Affordable Collection for Internet Customers", www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2011.

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• I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Next, Flagpoles

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• Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Next, Littles

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Aug 23, 2014

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• When it's over, it's over is part of football's greatest appeal to me. When a game ends, win or lose, it's time to prepare for the next one.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, Winning, Games

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• Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.

  Mae West

  Funny, Smile, Break Up

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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