- Me
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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
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.
- Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kentucky has long been Democratic at the state level but that trend had completely reversed in the Trump era.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republicans abandoned the pretext of democracy to fight a war for power long ago.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I relish. I have done it for so long now that I subconsciously measure whether or not the things I'm doing match with what I should be doing, what I want to be doing, and the life I want to live.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
- Haircut
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- Nov 07, 2020
Us three brothers - me, Janis, and Martins - we made a bet. We all sat down and said we were going to grow our hair out. But after a month or two, they cut their hair. But I was too young to make the decision about whether I would get a haircut, so mine just kept growing. And it was so long that I decided I should start rocking those cornrows.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's not hard to be a woman in comedy as long as you're also a writer. You have to create your opportunity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good thing about 'SNL' is that it's the same people every week that you're working with, and we've all become so close and tight because we've worked together so long and so closely together.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020