- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
- Line
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- Nov 07, 2020
While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long line of ne'er-do-wells, especially on my mother's side.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother died of a stroke in 1974, and for a long time, I blamed myself. She was utterly devastated when I told her I was a lesbian not long before.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't last long in college.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always believed that I am an amazing skater regardless of what the results say, and I think that determination and confidence has kept me in the game so long.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
To all the little girls out there, I would tell them to really appreciate what their parents do for them. And also to truly believe in their dream. If they truly believe that they're capable, things will happen for them - as long as they put in the work, of course.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020