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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You get kicked down. You come up swinging. You keep going. Either you are committed to it, or you aren't.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in WWE for 22 years, and that's a long time, and I still think I perform at a high level.
- Nov 07, 2020
Undertaker, for almost as long as many of us have been watching WWE, he's been part of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an MC, I come from a background where the onstage experience is freestyle-based: you never know who's going to join you on stage, or what you're gonna do, or how long you can stay on. You kind of lose that, once you get on to recording albums and going on tour. Doing Africa Express has brought me back to that excitement - for the unexpected.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very happy with where I arrived, both personally and professionally. I can say more so personally, because my career will have to end eventually. I do not know how long it will be, but eventually it will end, and the personal will continue.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a buffet of ideologies for me to choose from. I've been a fan of certain communist and socialist ideals. Some have failed, some have succeeded. I've lived long enough to understand where all they failed.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a principle, I will never react to film criticisms. As long as they are part of film fraternity, whatever they say will be beneficial to cinema.
- Nails
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives me insane.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know sometimes in the off-season I have to motivate myself to get on the ice because I know there's so long until the competitions begin again.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care how much it costs or who it's by as long as it fits me. I love shopping, but I go to the same stores I've always gone to: Guess, Bebe, Coach. I can't really skip out of that realm.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020