- 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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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Great Fire' is more what I'm used to - being in costume and make-up for a long time, trying to be 'period appropriate.'
- Skin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a very tough skin because I've been doing this for a long time. Rejection is simply part of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, we got no respect. People thought we just got lucky. They said we were a one-record wonder.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been in the game for so long, it's great to be honored for our contributions to the game of hip-hop and be told that we're not forgotten about, that our music is timeless.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People didn't want to accept that I was injured. I played on a bad knee, a really bad knee, for a long time. I actually put team before me and played when I was hurt, but people still would dog me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have watched people around members of the royal family for a long time now, and something very strange happens to them. They turn into sycophants.
- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of going to see the ice caps and the polar bears, because who knows how long they are going to be around for?
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020