“I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.” PeopleIfsThinkingLongIdeasNextActorsKnowingConditionsInsecurityStabilityNot KnowingGoing To WorkContinuity Author:Matthew Macfadyen
“If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker.” IfsTwoSoulCharacterStoriesWould BeNextPossibilityHostSeekers Author:Stephenie Meyer
“I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.” IfsKnowsJobsNextNervous Author:Sam Neill
“I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.” IfsWantLooksI CanTodayNextWaitingWeekTomorrowAbsolutesNext WeekFrenzy Author:Buck Owens
“People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantShouldDoeArtistNextParticularBandLike Something Author:Conor Oberst
“If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.” IfsWritingStoriesHappensRunningAbleNextFunHaving FunAnxiousSteam Author:Tamora Pierce
“It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase.” IfsLongStillsI CanEnoughPlayNextGrowsEnjoyStepsGrowing UpReadyLet MeGood EnoughPhases Author:Angela Ruggiero
“I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.” IfsWantBookSeemsNextLiteratureWillingKingsPicksLet MeSellingEditorsWant Me Author:Fred Saberhagen
“The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.” IfsKnowsI CanTwoEnoughAbleTurnsNextRaceKnow HowMiddlePureStartingEntertainmentHonestlyGet UpPacksChampionshipWill PowerGridsLatches Author:Dan Wheldon
“If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.” IfsYearsNextFiveTvsSeriesFive YearsAuditionsTv Series Author:Dominic West
“Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.” IfsNeedsSoulNextFunActingInvolvedStrategyPassionateRefuseMy SoulFuelGet InvolvedScreenplaysSemantics Author:Shailene Woodley
“If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsChildrenSufferingNextInterestNaturalDoubtGenerationsMountainConsequenceAppreciateClimbsSurroundingsNext Generation Author:Tamae Watanabe
“Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.” IfsFactsJobsPoliticalNextSoundIssuesBattleDemocratFinancialDullHorizonRegulationPlatformsItemsFinancial Regulation Author:Thomas Frank
“If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives.” IfsWellsNextAwarenessBuddhismStructureLifetimeAvailableThis LifeFuture LifeNext Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.” IfsWayShouldWritingMatterNightNextMorningWake UpDown AndDrunkHolidayBottlesEvery MorningWhiskeyTypewriters Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.” IfsActionHappinessNextActingFailureSubstitutesNext Time Author:Smiley Blanton
“If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.” IfsChristianNextFailingSucceedDevilAverageBelieverChristian InspirationalSaved Author:Vance Havner
“I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNextAutographsThe Next One Author:Patti LaBelle
“There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.” IfsMadeNextDecisionMouthsOppositesConvincedHelloRight Decision Author:Rich Lowry
“I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.” IfsGivingYearsNextStuffNext Year Author:David Morrissey
“Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.” PeopleIfsJobsNextGivenDecisionEmbraceUnhappyInstanceControversy Author:Gina McCarthy
“I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingLooksI CanIdeasShowsNextFansSucceedNo IdeaNext TimeHonoredDo The BestBest WorkFlattered Author:Poppy Montgomery
“If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.” IfsShouldMadeFilmPassionNextEnergyIndustryNext DayFilm Industry Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
“I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.” PeopleIfsWantYearsTwoThreeNextActorsCausesTenTwo YearsThree YearsGood MovieRespect Me Author:Frankie Muniz