- 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
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.
- Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a long period off to be a mom.
- Motivational
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think there are trends in your life once you've been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get nervous when you're identified with something that is really great and positive for so long. You don't want to not be that person, but there are going to be other roles in your career.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020