"By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around."

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"By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Measurement, Change

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Time, Past, Change, Possibility, Hope

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Bubble, Ocean

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, God, Idea, Invention

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Time, Work, Process, Patience

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Time, Eternity

"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Time, Immeasurable, Worth, Life

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Time, Moment, World, Stillness

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Time, Today, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

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"Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael."

Day, Stars

"Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines."

Actor, Actors, Want, Will

"There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it."

Hope, Books, Children, Events

"We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on."

Life, Relax

"I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!"

Men, First, Want

"I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will."

Reason, Will

"They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh."

Want,

"When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh."

Funny, Reason, Singing, Trying

"I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years."

Years,

"Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy."

Men, Comedy, First, Paris