- Think
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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
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very easy to divide a long shoot day into 15 or 20 rounds of 'What do I eat next?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.
- Nov 07, 2020
As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept the Jews alive for so long.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a fan of Showtime for a long, long time, and I've been a fan of the shows that it's had on.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of horror movies goes back a long way... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020