- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a big thing growing up was naturalness - both in being and appearance. My mom never let me relax my natural hair. For so long, I thought I was ugly, and I still sometimes struggle with that. But now I've come to feel like this is me.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are days where I'm at the facility almost all day long. It's definitely demanding mentally and physically.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
- Fifteenth
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020