- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make a living as a theater actor in New York, which is why I moved out here, and I always had an ambition to work in television. I am a great admirer of the format, and I think it's how we tell long stories.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one I knew in Sydney was thinking about how they might come to America and become a movie star. That would be considered delusions of grandeur. My parents were supportive, though. They just told me to keep at it as long as I was having fun.
- Laboratory
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Wenger could have moved on to another club, I am sure, but instead chose to stay and build something over the long term. He lives and dies by his own ideas, and Arsenal is his baby.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with Childish Gambino for so long, so I've learned that from those producing skills - how to really produce music - where, of course, it's about writing, but it's also about combining sounds and styles and genres.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
- Eternal Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020