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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
- Entire Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make my entire career at Lyon doesn't bother me as long as they continue to have the development and ambition to have a competitive team, even if we're not certain to win the Champions League.
- Alongside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing in Milan for me meant being able to play alongside players who were idols to me as a kid. Playing alongside David Beckham - his long passes are perfect for me.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.
- Nov 07, 2020
That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won't be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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- Nov 07, 2020