- 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
- Sea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started traveling in the Arctic in 1991, so I experienced the ice in winter and spring. The seasonal sea ice, it has a long season. It starts in September and ends in June.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They, that unnamed 'they,' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.
- Favorite Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite places on the planet is a place in northern Michigan: Long Lake in Traverse City.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A couple of my favourite cop movies are 'I Love a Man in Uniform' and 'The Long Goodbye.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw an early cut of 'The Disaster Artist,' and I thought it was inspiring in a lot of ways, and it made me realize it had been so long since I had tried to make a film or to try to - you know, the book was obviously my first kind of big creative pursuit I had control over.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, when you're in your early twenties, you don't think about your decisions and their long term effects.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common liberal orthodoxy that living close to the land leads to eco-awareness is historically naive, considering that Mesopotamia, northern Africa, and the Mayan civilization were ruined by people who had lived there quite a long while.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a normal movie, the director controls what you look at. The shots don't last very long because you're getting the audience to look at specific things. An IMAX shot, on the other hand, can be twenty or thirty seconds long.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I thought I'd be a physio if I wasn't a sportsman. At one point, I wanted to be an inventor, and I'd come up with little schemes.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that God created the Earth. I wasn't there, I don't know how long it took. I don't know how he did it exactly.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020