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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me in a horror film, just looking down a long corridor and seeing somebody standing there, the simplest thing in the world, has a really seismic impact to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I looked long and hard at third films in series to see if there were any good ones that I could learn from. And there weren't any that hadn't just gone off the train tracks by their third film. Until, that is, I got to the third 'Lord of the Rings' film.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our relations - the United States and Canada, that trade relationship is vitally important. There's a long history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, I represent the 1st Congressional District of New York. It's on the east end of Long Island. This is Suffolk County.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my best memories of growing up on Long Island include spending all day fishing for fluke on Great South Bay.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build in lots of noisy parts.
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- Nov 07, 2020