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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
I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.
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- Nov 07, 2020