- People
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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 wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I'm not living out of a suitcase, I'm happy.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ever closer union' is one of the totemically controversial phrases in the European Union's Treaties. It seems to give weight to the view that the scheme is designed to end in a single state and that those who agreed the texts have long know this, even if they have been unwilling to admit it to the British people.
- Fundamental Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a moderniser. I accept that things like escalators do need an upgrade every now and then, but I think the fundamental principles of Conservatism have a long thread running through them that does not need to be modernised.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.
- Designation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're quick to describe politicians whose views we find extreme or whose behavior seems odd as 'crazy,' and perhaps anyone who runs for president in some sense is. But I've long wondered whether Newt Gingrich merits that designation in a more clinical sense.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020