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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Chelsea. I've been here seven years now, and I'd love to stay here as long as I can.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a woman of faith. And I really believe that if I say, 'God, this is what I want,' He says, 'I'll give you your desires, as long as they line up with My will.'
- Nov 07, 2020
People want to see themselves in the industry that, for so long, has ostracized girls of my size.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that's happening and I want to cry. I'm doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time - and it's amazing. A lot of people don't get to do that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Demonetisation is a disinflationary process. So, this will bring down prices in the long run. It will also help in bringing down interest rates.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are used to cash, and getting them out of that is going to be a long and tough exercise.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until I did 'Hugo' where I sort of started to think that this could be something that I do for a long time - not necessarily the rest of my life, but we'll see.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as they're original and I have something to do with the character.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our priorities are all wrong if we only care about how long people are in prison for, and not what goes on inside them, and what happens after people are released.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020