- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find this mortifying to admit, but I have one of those balls that helps my posture. They're hard to sit on, so it stops me from sitting too long... I also wear a pair of 3M(TM) PELTOR(TM) Optime(TM) II Ear Muffs. They're the same ones that people wear on the tarmac among the planes - noise blockers.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing clears my head and puts things in perspective quite like a long, hard run.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so glad I was able to do 'The Originals,' and I want to be a part of that family for a long time.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in allowing your child to be who they want to be - as long as they want to be something great.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
- Confuses
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- Nov 07, 2020