Sequels Quotes - Page 8

• I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing

  "A chat about the novel 'Fight Club'", www.cnn.com. October 27, 1999.

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• To do a sequel is so weird, you don't really think about it.

  Sean William Scott

  Thinking

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• All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

  Michael Chabon

  Influence, Bliss, Novel

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Children, Years, Europe

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses”

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• Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Directors, Married, Not Sure

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• The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

  Steven Spielberg

  Night, Jurassic Park, Territory

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• I didn't make the same song twice, but I definitely made the sequel to it, because everyone would come up to me in the streets saying, "Yo Khaled, make another 'I'm So Hood.' We love that record so much.

  DJ Khaled

  Song, Records, Made

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• We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.

  Dean Devlin

  Successful, Giving, Television

  IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. September 18, 2006.

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• Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Moving, Book

  "Saint Anything: book launch + Sarah Dessen interview + giveaway!". Interview with Wendy Darling, www.themidnightgarden.net. May 8, 2015.

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• I think there are some people that are capable of making a sequel more special than the original. And we have seen that when the original 'Terminator' came out, then Jim Cameron outdid himself with the sequel. Then it became the highest grossing movie of the year when it came out in 1991.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: guff.com

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• For me, as an actor, the most challenging thing is creating the character in the beginning because you have to write their backstory. The easy part about doing a sequel is that you've done the film, so you already know their backstory.

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Writing, Character, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you're doing it differently.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Voice, Way

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• Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Children, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.505, Library of America

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• I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

  Justin Lin

  Mean, Journey, People

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• There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

  Jason Blum

  Giving, Creative, Anything Goes

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

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• All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fate, Issues, Veils

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

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• There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.

  Winston Churchill

  Future, Past, Two

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Joy, Soul

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• Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Book, Firsts, Shantaram

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• How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Blessed, World, Mystery

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• In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.

  James C. Collins

  Organization, Ironic, Lasts

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• The idea of Rambo is kind of intriguing as a closing chapter. When you shoot a film as a sequel to do another sequel it's a whole other tone. But when you know it's the final chapter you try and put in there as much emotion, understanding and closure as you can. So, whereas Rocky is a lighter character and optimistic, Rambo is much darker.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Optimistic, Character, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The way you set up for a sequel is by having a successful film. The focus is on making a successful film, and making a film that travels around the world, and that people enjoy and have fun with, and that people are able to escape with.

  Peter Berg

  Fun, Successful, People

  "Peter Berg Talks BATTLESHIP, the FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Movie, and the Upcoming NBC Series PRIME SUSPECT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 01, 2011.

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• My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

  Sarah Dessen

  Originals

  Interview with Adele Walsh, www.persnicketysnark.com. April 18, 2010.

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• I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Running, President

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