- Hair
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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
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a long time before I understood what the word 'specific' was. I remember being a kid and thinking it was 'pacific,' and being like, 'Can you be more pacific?' And I believed that for maybe five, six years until someone was like, 'It's 'specific.''
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Less is more. I would notice that when I did my makeup, I was putting on more makeup than they did on me at shoots. A little goes a long way, so I definitely learned how to wear less.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
- Daily Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
- She
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- Nov 07, 2020