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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
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really not opposed to playing anything as long as it's a story that I want to tell.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said I will be CEO as long as my colleagues want me.
- Dante
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- Nov 07, 2020
The founding father of Albanian literature is the nineteenth-century writer Naim Frasheri. Without having the greatness of Dante or Shakespeare, he is nonetheless the founder, the emblematic character. He wrote long epic poems, as well as lyrical poetry, to awaken the national consciousness of Albania.
- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, literature is a natural adversary of totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments all view literature in the same way: as their enemy. I lived for a long time in a totalitarian state, and I know firsthand that horror.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up in Italy in the 1950s, it was still very agricultural. Food was very important; produce was very important. Everyone made their own olive oil. It took me a long time after I moved here to understand that Americans are much further away from their food.
- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
In France, we have a mania for meetings that start very early and finish very late. It wastes time and creates rigidity in schedules. Everyone knows I hate long meetings.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can reinvent myself. This is why I've stayed such a long time in the business: because I always change; I'm never the same person.
- Hanging
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and these are only tacked or basted, as the garments, when washed, are taken to pieces, and each piece, after being very slightly stiffened, is stretched upon a board to dry.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020