- History
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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.
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- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, what we're looking for in the long run is to find other Earth-like planets.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the subject matters that I like to make stories about are definitely not inherently commercial. So I have to look for a very special kind of financing and go down a very gentle path in order to make my films, as do basically all social-realist filmmakers. It's a long process.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
And American voters understand that if we want to keep fighting to move in the new - in a new direction, we've got a long way to go. And we need to make sure we continue with Democrats being in the majority.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody has money right now. And eating is very important, but it doesn't need to be expensive. And to make - it doesn't need to be fancy, as long as it's fresh and simple. The simpler it is, the more fancy it actually comes out tasting.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went a long way. Like cilantro.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a terrible science student, and for a long time, I thought I just didn't understand science. It turned out that I didn't understand post-Newtonian science. I could actually understand how people thought scientifically about the world in the past.
- Peers
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I'm respected by my peers and coaches, I'm cool.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a fan of 'Call of Duty' for a long time.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I've definitely found my thing, what I'm good at. Certain things that guys do keep them in the NBA a long time, but I've found what I'm good at, and I'm only going to continue to get better at that.
- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020