- Politics
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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.
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- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch practically no TV - ah, what the hell do I watch? Oh, I was for a long time addicted to CNN.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
The parts of a film should be in proportion to the whole, and a long film pasted together out of quick little scenes makes me dizzy.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Space opera has always given authors a way to include a vast array of ideas and concepts. The opportunities it provides are limitless. Long may it reign.
- Almost Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020