- Drive
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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
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
A picador is the guy in a bullfight who helps make sure the matador doesn't get killed by distracting the bull. That's what TV writing is. You're just distracting the bull long enough to stick around for the next set of commercials.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I can keep remembering the lines and getting to the locations, I want to keep working as long as I can. I love it.
- Glasses
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judge Doom is such an evil cartoon! It was just such fun to do. I liked the whole mystique of it: the long cape, the glasses, and all that stuff. You grow up with horror films as a kid, and it all seemed to be embodied in that one guy.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the thing about acting and making music is that it's easy to do both. I'll shoot a movie for three months, and then I won't have to work for however long I want to. So, I can do a movie for a couple of months and then come and do music for a couple. But whatever's hot at the moment is what I'll gravitate toward.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
- Brady
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!
- Lesson
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- Nov 07, 2020