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.
It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it. As a child, I used to get so excited about performing, I'd get the giggles.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a...
For a long time, television said, 'We won't cover cricket unless you pay us to cover it.' Then they said, 'OK, the next rights are sold for 55 million dollars. The next rights are sold for 612 million dollars.' So,...
Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.
I am not a 34-year-old manager trying to make my way in the game; I have been around a long time.
I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it...
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas...
You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless,...
I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
