- School
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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
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the so-called terrorist mind.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, sang out loud, or listened to the radio with frequency. The record collection in the living room was only about 2 feet long - and that included 4 solid inches of Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion has come a long way to embrace different body shapes, ethnicities, even looks. I find it an exciting time culturally for these reasons. Women are really coming into their own.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard stories of other people that are similar stories to me - their mother or father passing away. People have come out to me on Instagram. It's amazing that they can tell me and confide in me. I always want to take the time and write these long messages telling them how much that means to me.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole career thinking I'll never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020