- My Life
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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
My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
- Economic Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a 34-year-old manager trying to make my way in the game; I have been around a long time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020