- Doorstep
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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
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.
- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons why I don't leave Northampton is that the people don't treat me like a celebrity. I've been here for years; I'm just that bloke with long hair.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'
- Nov 07, 2020
No country is ever successful in the long term... without a really strong and vibrant manufacturing base.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
- Good Deal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I've been around long enough to have ups and downs. So you get over it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
- Fireplace
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.
- High Seas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020