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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there's the impulse to say let's deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you're ahead of a trend, I think you're going to be fine. You really have to have a multitasking mind that can switch from one thing to the other easily without too much focus on, 'Oh, I'm going to Instagram my life.'
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have had a long wait for democracy.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020