- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad always told me that, as far as he's concerned, I can do whatever I choose in life as long as I'm happy and can handle the consequences of bad decisions. He only ever said that when he thought I was doing the wrong thing. I would employ similar passive aggression.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are great. They are endlessly fascinating and bizarre. But I also think that if I had left them on their own for long enough, one of them would have been eaten.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arsenal were really interested in me for a long time, and I think that I fit into the football Arsenal play.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew before I arrived that the pressure at a club that challenges for the title grows quickly. The season is long; we'll become stronger with every game.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a long time to get a film made.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for writer's block, but it's actually just part one of a long process.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020