Long Quotes
Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.
In the story, which is only a few chapters long in Genesis, Noah never even speaks until after the flood - but when you have Russell Crowe, you're going to make him speak.
I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.
People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."
Where you just possessed?" Cookie asked after a long moment, awe softening her voice. "'Cause let me tell you, sweetheart, if that was possession, I'm selling my soul.
After a long, labored sigh, I said, “She was really happy when I got there. I’m pretty sure she was suicidal when I left.” “You do have that effect on people.
As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.
The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor.
Miami, you can never run out of material. As long as you have Miami around you, you will never, never stop being amused.
The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond silt for brains, you want the long form.
It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.
The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.
I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.
Thinking about starting a small business? Assume everything will cost twice as much and take twice as long as you think it will.
The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.
We're leaving this Hell of a mess before long and we're going to go to our Country and our City to be with our King!
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.
Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.
Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.
The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And so I think it can be very effective, so long as you're not actually crazy.
Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.
Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win.
People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.
So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the era of modern cable, because people will pay them to talk to the president.
If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.
There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.
It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.
The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.
I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.
I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.