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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in its purest form; nothing - no law or custom, no person white or black, male or female - could keep him for long from whatever he wanted.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a point of no return when you're cooking tomatoes. A little too much heat, a little too long in the pot, and you lose that sense of fresh ripeness that makes tomatoes so great.
- Nov 07, 2020
That is a long word: forever!
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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I love the way the long scenes feel - one of the characteristics of '70s filmmaking is that you don't cut around a lot; you let things play out. I did that on 'Samurai Jack,' and it carried over into 'Clone Wars.'
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I've had a face-lift. I've had my eyes done; liposuction; the nose job - well, that was a long time ago.
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As long as Green Lantern is still dealing with fear, it's going to be relevant. 'Rebirth' really grew out of 9/11. 9/11 happened, and then two years later, I was writing about fear. It was obviously connected.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.
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I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
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Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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- Nov 07, 2020