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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
- Doing The Right Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
And opportunity doesn't always come. I thought I should have had a head-coaching opportunity a long time ago. Called plays in the Super Bowl. Won the game. No phone calls.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
- Nov 07, 2020