- Mother
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness - always a surprise no matter how often it's happened - that their lives are very different from your own.
- Perseverance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
- Nov 07, 2020
Long jumping sounds simple - you run fast and jump well. But it is about getting all the technical bits right.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the long term, we should develop and implement new technologies to capture and store coal's carbon emissions. We also must make our electric grid more resilient.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and, almost more importantly, how long it would sustain anybody's interest.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020