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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
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson have both been writing for a long time. In 30 years, will writers of that quality have been able to serve the same sort of apprenticeship? Not unless they can make enough money now to live on.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
These days it seems that every big, new, heavily promoted children's book is rather like the ghost of poor old Jacob Marley. Each one comes trailing a long, clanking chain of references - in the form of overexcited press releases and slightly hysterical jacket blurbs - to bestsellers of a supposedly similar nature.
- Childcare
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and are really fond of them. There are also times when children need to be left alone to learn to be independent and to encourage their imaginary friends.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to cut my hair so much because I love it long, so I put Kerastase Aura Botanica Concentre Essentiel on the ends when they are dry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My take on it, like a filmmaker or actor, is if you have much more colors within your creation, eventually people will appreciate what you're doing, and the other stuff is secondary, like critiques or even awards or anything else, as long as people enjoy it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind having a one-hit wonder as long as I have a career in show business, which has been fabulous.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.
- Nov 07, 2020