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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if your parents don't have Alzheimer's or aren't in a wheelchair, your parents get old - if you're lucky to have parents who live for a long time. It's a challenge, and it's difficult and lovely and touching and awful and ghastly and real.
- Darn
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done 'Back in the Saddle Again' so darn long, I could go to sleep and sing it.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.
- Governors
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
- Nov 07, 2020
I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.
- Heroes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've portrayed cops as heroes for far too long, I think.
- Nov 07, 2020
Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
- Distinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020