- Myself
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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
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always overwrite - really awful, long bits of script - and then I trim it down to the bare bones and then add a little bit to colour it in. At the end of all of my stories, I test for wordless comprehension. So I remove the text and see if it works by itself. And if it does, I feel that that's a successful story.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, meditation's hard because I feel like I have developed 'cultural attention-deficit disorder,' where, because we have so much stimulation, I feel like I have trouble focusing on things for very long. So when I try to meditate, my brain gets so scattered.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joy is something you can experience even when life is not pleasurable. Even in the midst of a long run, when your legs are burning, you can still feel joy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.
- Nov 07, 2020
I gave up a long time ago thinking that people had to like or agree with what I was doing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion of protections when it came obtaining permission for wiretaps and other surveillance methods.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my time, Mother's Day wasn't celebrated the way it is now. In fact, there used to be no Mother's Day for a long time.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020