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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
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
- Formulate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.
- Ascertain
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020