- Fossil
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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
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a very long and consistent track record on the part of Hillary Clinton, and it's not been favorable to women, to children, to the cause of peace, justice, and a sustainable climate.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm asked all the time if there could be a Bernie Sanders collaboration, and my answer to that has always been yes. The Green Party has long sought to establish a collaboration with Bernie Sanders.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young girl, I definitely struggled with knowing what to do with my hair. I was just in a neighborhood that had mostly white people, and the hair norm was long and sleek and straight. My hair naturally was curly, and I didn't have that many references.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been fascinated with the subject of loss for a long time. In particular, I'm interested in how people, consciously or unconsciously, spend their lives replacing the things they lost when they were children.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.
- Nov 07, 2020
Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020