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.
I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.
If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.
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I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
I do think there are trends in your life once you've been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.
When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I...
TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed...
I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.
I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.
You get nervous when you're identified with something that is really great and positive for so long. You don't want to not be that person, but there are going to be other roles in your career.
People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have...
