Long Quotes
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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
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People will use you as long as you let them.
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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
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Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
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As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy?
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It's never been integral to the story that I take my clothes off. I've always had clauses in my contracts saying no nudity and no body doubles... I admire actresses who can do it without feeling exploited. As long as it's their own free will, I think it's great. It's not a moral judgement, I've just never felt comfortable doing it - I'm too modest.
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Growing up takes longer than you think.
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How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?
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So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.
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We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.
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There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.
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In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.
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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.
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I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
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I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.
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I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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I don't know how people chew gum all day long.
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As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
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House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
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What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
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... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.
