- Knowledge
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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.
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- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a, you know, certain kind of freedom for me when I get on stage. Maybe it's because I've held it back for so long that it's made me a little bit of angst inside. It's kind of like this energy needs to come out. And there's a certain sense, you know, of freedom when I get on that stage.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.
- Haul
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- Nov 07, 2020
On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have nothing wrong with comics and writers poking fun at the President, as long as it's funny. When it's the same retread jokes with predictable punchlines, that's when it's offensive.
- Detailed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in my mid-40s now, and I came out in 11th grade, so I must have been 17. So that's quite a long time ago, and the temperature and the culture was different.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020