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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
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmentally friendly business practices have long been mainstream, particularly when they create a brand advantage, as with organic foods.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in democracy, the overreach of leaders is a good reminder that vigorous public debate and time-consuming due process are not only more fair and more just, but that over the long term they usually produce better government, too.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I directed my music to the teen-agers. I was 30 years old when I did 'Maybellene.' My school days had long been over when I did 'School Day,' but I was thinking of them.
- Best Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I couldn't do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then it's part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to listen to Lionel Barrymore do 'A Christmas Carol' on the radio long ago, and I like Reginald Owen, who played Scrooge in the first treatment for the screen. But my favorite Scrooge was Alastair Sim. He was enchanting, an absolutely beautiful performance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020