- Divisions
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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
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother at a party, he noticed her long legs and was like, 'Woo woo!' I like to incorporate those stories into my music. They just seem to fit.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is always a bit crazy. You spend so long banging on the door trying to get in that when it suddenly opens, it's a very strange feeling.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intimidation doesn't last very long.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Queer black characters have been the sidekick for long enough. It's time for us to finally take the lead.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did four months on 'Line of Duty' from beginning to end, and that would be a long theater run.
- Eat
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- Nov 07, 2020