- 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
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you work really hard at something for a really, really long time, you do it well. Eventually, somebody will notice.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The apricot's fleetingly short harvest - only a few weeks long - explains the urge to save the season in a jar. But cooked fruit, no matter how expertly preserved, can never measure up to the flawlessness of its fresh counterpart.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could probably go on for a long time about the differences between Northern California and Southern California Mexican food.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020