- I Am
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.
- Hanging
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.
- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the arrival of my first son, I gave up on the moribund business of magazine publishing, where I had long dreamed of a career, and went to work in advertising. That I could be paid great money to write was incredibly hard to believe.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't invest in the stock market. I did it a long, long time ago when I was really young, and I got involved in all the investigations and all the prosecutions, and I felt it was better if I didn't make individual investments. So I'm invested in funds, but not in individual - not in individual stocks.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020