Long Quotes
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Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.
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You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.
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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
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It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.
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I have noticed a difference in myself spiritually. I have had a better relationship with my wife and kids. It's because I am putting the gospel first. I just wish it hadn't taken me so long to realize it.
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I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.
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I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.
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America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
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I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.
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I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.
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When you take that to the next level of guiding a group of filmmakers to actually depict him, it's even more challenging. The one that that I think everybody involved believes is that we won't move forward with this until we believe it's right. There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.
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When you've been on Instagram and Twitter long enough, you know how mean people can be.
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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.
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When I was studying comedy in Chicago, it wasn't long after 9/11. There were a lot Middle Eastern comedians who were doing bits about hailing cabs and being terrorists. So the first two years, I didn't do any of that because I wanted to separate myself from those guys. But race is a big part of who I am, and it should be a big part of my comedy.
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It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
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Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.
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It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.
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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
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We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.
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Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.
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As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitarianism -- unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.
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There's a particular kind of single woman whose relationship with her dog has a level of intensity and affection that may be both the cause and the result of her singleness. For a long time, I was that woman.
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In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.
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As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
