- 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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don't know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been wanting for a long time to create a show which allowed me to show the British Asian community in a truly three-dimensional way, exploring the relationships between generations and what it means to be British and Asian as values become fluid.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long.
- Measure
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it.
- Good Pair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like a good pair of diamond studs goes a long way. They make everything look dressy, and you just seem more put together.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sexual harassment can really affect you for a long time, and I want more women to come forward.
- Drifting
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- Nov 07, 2020