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• I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Order, Three

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• Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, War

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• The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and are trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... many others...seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Eye, Iran, Years

  Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.

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• The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

  Alan Greenspan

  Successful, Coins, Tossers

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.465, Penguin

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• Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies.

  Guy Maddin

  Long, Twenties, Archives

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Character, Numbers, Rejection

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Dec 16, 2014

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• Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

  Joyce Brothers

  Football, Men, Games

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• The inspiration for the book came after a visitation from a spiritual being that materialized before me on two consecutive nights. Although I crumpled into unconsciousness at the outset of each encounter and consciously remembered hearing only an initial word or two from the entity, I awakened on the dawn after the second visit with the ideas for The Divine Fire bubbling in my brain.

  Brad Steiger

  Spiritual, Book, Inspiration

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• Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.

  George Carlin

  Numbers, Records, Alive

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• I just want to bring people in a little bit to the idea of sitting down on a Sunday three consecutive weeks and having that water cooler moment that really was a sort of a national sensation in the U.K., 'cause it's kind of fun.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Sunday, Ideas

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Sherlock,' Smaug And Spying". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• I've never before had the same main character appear in consecutive novels, but I liked Yancy and his attitude, and I was curious to see what would happen to him after Bad Monkey. And I liked the idea of him still trying to get his detective job back while he's stuck on roach patrol.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Jobs, Attitude, Character

  ""True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre" - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about "Razor Girl"". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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• The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

  William J. Clinton

  Patriotic, Two, Gmos

  "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. May 29, 2003.

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• At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.

  Adam Garcia

  Jobs, Night, Years

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• I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

  Mose Allison

  Night, Years, Able

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• I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Uplifting, Team, Hero

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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• All my friends are always telling me how hard it is to have kids. 'Oh, David, it's so hard.' That's not hard. I'll tell you what hard is. Try talking your girlfriend into her third consecutive abortion. Yeah, that's hard, that takes finesse. You're just inconvenienced.

  David Cross

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

  "It's Not Funny". Stand-up comedy album by David Cross, November 14, 2004.

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• There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world

  Wallace D. Wattles

  People, World, Hardest

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.20, e-artnow

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• If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Past, Air

  "Am I Turning Into a Pervert?", November 18, 2003.

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• For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

  John Calvin

  Confused, Book, Two

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.

  Garry Kasparov

  Player, Years, Numbers

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• Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

  Pau Gasol

  Accomplishment, Three, Playoffs

  "'I've Never, Ever Liked Elvis': an Interview with Laker Pau Gasol". Interview with Dan Gurle, bleacherreport.com. May 8, 2008.

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• This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.

  Alan Green

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• Mabutt has now played seven consecutive games for England, this is his seventh

  Martin Tyler

  Soccer, Games, England

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• Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Exercise, Jogging, Type

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• Whenever commandments are given they create difficulties for people, because by the time they are given they are already out of date. Life moves so fast; it is a dynamism, it is not static. It is not a stagnant pool, it is a Ganges, it goes on flowing. It is never the same for two consecutive moments. So one thing may be right this moment, and may not be right the next. Then what to do? The only possible thing is make people so aware that they themselves can decide how to respond to a changing life.

  Rajneesh

  Life Changing, Moving, Two

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