- Goals
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a producer and learned I was pregnant within a five-day span. I wanted both things badly, just not at the same time. I cried and hid my pregnancy for an absurdly long time as I proved myself in the job.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father played with Air Supply, Yes, B.B. King and even Sheryl Crow when she first started out, so I've sort of been around the industry for a long time.
- Protein
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- Nov 07, 2020
I snack on fruit and nuts. In the middle of my long workouts, I'll have a protein shake.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out in theater, and then I got a job on a soap in New York. With a soap opera, its every day, all year long - there's no downtime, and you're shooting a show a day.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been here so long. The history and richness runs so deep within the community. We own this. It's personal. It's very personal.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other.
- Great Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long and it's easy to get discouraged. Instead I think to myself, 'Wow, I have this great story idea, and today I'm going to write two pages of it. That's all - just two pages.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad cult of constitutional writing. The Petition of Right of 1628, like the Bill of Rights of 1689, was a cherished text. So, most of all, was Magna Carta.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a very long time, loyalists were often left out of patriotic American histories of the revolution. Or they were caricatured as upper-class Tory reactionaries, or - rather like the Jacobites - made the subject only of nostalgic antiquarianism.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020