- 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
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.
- Asserting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
- Approximately
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as we have enough fighters and fight cards to keep everybody fighting three times a year, that's where I want our roster to be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to focus on stories that need to be told and are not told enough. When I get bit by that bug, and the story is saying, 'You must tell me,' I then go through a process which is often painful and arduous, and long - and joyful! - of submitting to the story until I prove a worthy enough vessel to get it out.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
For lots of reasons, including working crazy hours and having a job that required significant travel, I did not start trying to have a baby until I was in my late 30s. My experience is hardly unique. I am one of countless women who almost waited too long without realizing it.
- Nov 07, 2020