- People
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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
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people get a Broadway show, and that's their end game, and they want to sit there for as long as possible. And some people have other things they want to do with their life.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been around baseball for a really long time. I didn't know I could want to be here any more than I do, have any more love or passion for this. But being away, even for just a week, that was the worst. I didn't know what was going on. I never want to do that again.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.
- Shadow
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I've mastered Dave East. For a long time I was trying to figure out who I was and what sound I wanted to come with.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020