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"Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next."
"I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album."
"I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does."
"I am confident that the next century will be better than this one."
"If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have."
"I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade."
"Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state."
"The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment."
"I like the not knowing of what the next job is."
"Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics."
"I feel I have lived my whole life, day to day, without planning anything and I like it that way. Things change so fast, one minute you are here, the next minute you are on a plane, it's great fun."
"In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom."
"Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own."
"You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next."
"You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next."
"The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment."
"He sins against this life, who slights the next."
"We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields"
"You have to trust your instincts and hope the fans like what you do, but you don't gut check with the fans. If we're going to make a series, people are going to have a lot of opinions and if there's one overwhelming majority or one thing you continuously hear repeated from the fans, you certainly take that into account going into next season."
"Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse."
