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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
- Wait
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think EDM and metal and rock have been together already for a long time. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, the Prodigy - they all have influences from both.
- Colour
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We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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- Nov 07, 2020