O Quotes
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“Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.”
“Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.”
“Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.”
Source: The Evolutionary Void
“Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.”
“Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.”
“Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.”
“Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.”
Source: Counterclockwise
“Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.”
“Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.”
“Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.”
“Once you've been number one, you can never be satisfied with less.”
“Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.”
“Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.”
“Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.”
Source: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir
“Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.”
Source: The Acid House
“Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“Once you've committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line.”
Source: Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion's Long-Distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream
“Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.”
“Once you've created an intelligence so smart, the real job of that intelligence is to protect itself from other intelligences becoming more intelligent than it. It's just kind of like human beings. The way you look at money or the way you look at the success of your child, you always want to make sure that as far as it gets, it can protect itself and continue forward. So I think any type of intelligence, no matter what it is, is going to have this very basic principle to protect the power that it has gained.”
“Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way”
“Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.”
Source: Belgarath the Sorcerer
“Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.”
“Once you've done that, push the thought of no thought away.”
“Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents.”
“Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.”
“Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.”
“Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.”
“Once you've fallen in love, it's turned around your whole life. You keep thinking about this girl all the time instead of thinking about other things. Since the object of love is that particular person, being separated brings about a longing and pain.”
“Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.”
“Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice.”
Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.”
“Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.”
“Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.”
“Once you've got a concept and a sense of themes and what it's about, then you can start to add your plot and sort of Tetris in all of the elements that you want to see, but also attach them to something that has cohesion, like a mold.”
“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
Source: The Blade Itself: The First Law: Book One
“Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.”
“Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues to stick together, clumping into rocky asteroids, which eventually become orbiting rocky planets. And voila: a solar system!”
“Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.”
“Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.”
“Once you've gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun.”
“Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.”
“Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.”
“Once you've had a real taste of touring it's like, "Okay, it's pretty amazing that we have real fans and we can go out and play shows," but you start to feel a personal need, like, "Okay, I think it's time to go home for a minute."”
“Once you've had enough and you can't do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.”
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
“Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.”
“Once you've heard the joke, it's not funny anymore, but it's the way it's told. And I think that's the same with the music: The reason some of my songs have lasted longer is there's a lot of stuff packed in there. You want to hear them more than once.”
“Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.”
“Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.”
“Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.”