- Long Time
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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.
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- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is one of the most beautiful things about our country that just one individual, so long as he or she has the law on their side, can take on the most powerful institutions or people in the land and win.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
As transparency campaigner for more than 10 years, I have long had a sense that something was not quite right about the E.U. referendum. I warned back in November 2017 that the leave campaign seemed to be awash with dark money that may have circumvented rules designed to uphold the integrity of our democratic process.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to get past this persistent negativity. The negativity has held Rhode Island back for a long time.
- Film Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
My view of myself doesn't change. I know who I am. I'm Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban - one was a little browner than the other one. That's who I am. I feel sorry that it's taken so long for the film industry to figure it out and to catch up.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to listen to my body - and it's telling me not to run long distances. So how do you train for a race when you know you won't have the same result as before? And should you even join if you know you can't run the whole race? Absolutely - just run-walk it.
- Dragged
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- Nov 07, 2020
A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny & Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don't know how much they liked me that day.
- Risks
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- Nov 07, 2020
And as a woman, you need to take risks. Don't stay too long in your own swim lane.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long time ago, we had to build interfaces to connect with other companies, and I thought that was a great idea. The company had to pay a lot of money to build it and basically launched it, but our whole operating system almost broke. So, we couldn't continue it. In the end, I had to go on the train to Paris to explain that I had spent millions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's ever a wrong answer as long as people are willing to learn, share. You're never done learning.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020