Long Quotes
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When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.
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How many ways can you cut a steak? How many ways can a chord go? I've been in this business so long, I know how to cut it.
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I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.
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There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.
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I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14.
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It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide-but so quickly close again!
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Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
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A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.
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I've been going to school, did theater for a long time, been plugging away for 10, 15 years. I was told earlier in my career, it's all laying track... one day, all that track is going to come together in some way, and it has.
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I took a decision that I wanted to be a long-term player in Congo.
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The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
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For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.
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If I have a family down the road, I don't know if I could ever raise them in the city because I am a small town girl at heart. I definitely long for the mountains.
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I want to keep doing what I'm doing and see how far I can go. See when it stops. See what the end is like. I want to make this moment last as long as I can make it. If I miss a day, I'm afraid I'll miss out on a smash record.
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Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.
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Queer black characters have been the sidekick for long enough. It's time for us to finally take the lead.
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As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
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Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.
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Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.
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It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
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Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.
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I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.
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Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy.
