- 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
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
- Miracles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main fear comes from playing a character that so many people know from the comic books, and there's a long history of people unhappy with movies and TV shows who make alterations to comic book characters.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020