- 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
- General Relativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum mechanics you are forced to conclude that God exists.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have survived so long because I've been blessed with talented and gracious colleagues and with a top brass who let me choose my topics every week and then allowed me to express opinions that were not always popular. Well, someone had to stand up to the yackety-yak soccer cult.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're coming to the peak, I think soon, before we have to come back to, like, humanity. Humanity needs to look, and it hasn't been looking for so long.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a magic about pulsars... no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing frequency, so it could be identified by anybody, including other creatures, after a long period of time and far, far away.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.
- Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020