- Feel
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.
- Portrait
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- Nov 07, 2020
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever I like, even after a long time, I still like it. And I reminisce about the moment when I first heard it. That's what I love. Just remembering those moments.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always focus on the quality of music because as long as the content is good, then the interest will be there.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A little man often cast a long shadow.
- Spring
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020