- Passion
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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
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
- College Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea for 'Conversations with Friends' - two college students who befriend a married couple - struck me at first as a concept for a short story. I started to write it under the title 'Melissa,' and eventually, it got too long.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I'm in government, as long as I'm in politics, I will do everything in my power to fight back against those who seek to undermine Israel.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't done an international film for a long time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in school, we would always have running races. I was good at it. Always sprinting. I can run long distance, too.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020