- 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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes my life is moving so fast that I forget what's going on. I'm just going with the pace or going with the flow. Like, I don't really stop and try to pay attention to things for too long.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020