- History
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we tend to talk in short grabs rather than in long flowing sentences. I think that's not a bad way to write.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair... and its all good.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dyslexia means I can't read for long periods or the letters start moving around on the page, giving me headaches.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while they were being built. In fact, I had a studio that was ripped out, along with the whole neighborhood, to put the towers in. I saw them go up. I lived with them, running past them in the morning. And they were like part of my furniture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020