Long Quotes
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
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Regardless of how long it took or what I had to go through to get there, I had visualizations of throwing no-hitters or throwing shutouts.
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I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.
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The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.
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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
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The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
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Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.
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When you spend that long on the outer reaches of empire, you understand the cruelty of empire ... and the lies we tell ourselves about what is done in our name.
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Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.
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I'm not going back to Woodstock for a while,Though I long to hear that lonesome hippie smile,I'm a million miles away from that helicopter day,No, I don't think I'll be goin' back that way.
