- Drama
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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
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 30, and I've been touring since I was 15. So it's been a long journey to get here.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not sure for how long I'll stick to this industry. Acting is just a part of my nomadic life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I have reached that stage where I can evaluate my career. I still have a long way to go. All I wish for now is to make sensible moves and to choose wisely. It doesn't matter if there are gaps between films, as long as the ones I do give me the satisfaction of having done something good.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife knows that interacting with actresses is all part of the job, but there is a line which I'm not supposed to cross, and as long as I don't cross it, there are no problems. She doesn't bother with whatever I do onscreen. But the line is always there!
- Democrats
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a long line of Democrats.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved it. I was in love with Edward before every other girl that says she's in love with him was. Because I read them a long time ago shooting a movie in Salt Lake City, and one of Stephenie Meyer's friends said, 'Make sure you read my friend's book.'
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair.
- Karma
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I heard opera all day long. From the time I was 9 years old, I was imitating the singers; later I studied opera. But we also got Western television and radio, from the Americans in West Berlin. When I was 11 years old, I turned into a hippie and gave flowers to policemen. And when I was 21 and left Berlin for London, I became a punk.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned a lot about being in control of your career - and that being positive and believing in yourself goes a very long way. And creatively, the music needs to sound like it's come from you, not someone else who's choosing the songs for you.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020