Long Quotes
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In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.
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The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
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I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.
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I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.
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Volkswagen has made a strategic decision to expand in the area of heavy commercial vehicles, in line with our long-term strategy.
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As always, it would be important to ensure that any fiscal policy changes did not compromise long-run fiscal sustainability.
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I feel very grateful that for some reason I was raised to believe that I had permission to explore the creative world. I'm very aware of what a privilege that is, because most people don't grant themselves that permission, and I really think that's the only thing that separates people that call themselves artists from the rest of the world. It's suspending self-judgment for long enough to do something expressive.
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The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.
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As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own.
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Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.
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I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.
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..the thing was to choose one a ready-made object that you were not attracted by.. ..and that was difficult because anything becomes beautiful if you look at it long enough.. .My intention was to completely eliminate the existence of taste, bad or good or indifferent.
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Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
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Federal spending is like a massive ship that takes a very long time to turn.
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Many people are looking to Washington for answers, but I'm here to tell you, if we wait for the politicians to solve the problems of our day, we will be waiting a long time.
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When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not just because of the images.
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The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to.
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Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
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After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.
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I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.
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I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.
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I have had the same friends for a really long time, and I like them because they like some of the stuff I like, but they are also really different from me.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
