- Darkness
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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
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the path to a long career is to keep the audience guessing. Daniel Day Lewis is my absolute hero from that point of view. I literally will pay to see anything he does because I know it's going to be something different than I have already seen.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked for a long time to get myself in a position where maybe I'd be fortunate enough to land one of the big jobs.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.
- Bombarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will always be something higher for me to reach for, and as long as there is, I'll keep reaching.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone asked me, 'How long do you intend to do 'Deadwood'?' And part of my sociopathology, I say, 'Well, when does my contract run out?' And I realize my contract ran out at the end of four seasons.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020