- 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
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don't know, I think everything's so quick cut these days, as if films are too afraid that the audience is going to get bored instead of relaxing and trusting their work.
- Nov 07, 2020
For a workout, I love to hike or take a long walk. Being outside is crucial; I can't stand gyms.
- Bad Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing theatre when somebody noticed me and referred me to Raju Hirani. And Raju saw me on camera, and there, I was a heavy guy with long hair. But I got selected for the role of Joy in '3 Idiots.'
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as people are using the Internet, people are going to do stupid stuff, and people are going to do bad stuff. And by the time that robots are sentient, they're going to enslave us anyway, so it won't matter.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.
- Heroes
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- Nov 07, 2020
History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020