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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to have a fruitful romantic life when I'm never in one place for long.
- Chicken
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long argued that ISIS and Assad are not separate problems to be chosen between, but are action and reaction, cause and symptom, chicken and egg: impossible to untangle no matter how much we might like to.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I changed the rules for allowing people to buy into my system as a franchisee. I explained in detail how tough running a Jimmy John's can be. I explained the long hours, the unforgiving weather, the late nights, the weekends, and all of the sacrifices that go along with the industry. I made it tough for people to get into the system.
- Bad Ones
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020