Long Time Quotes - Page 11

• At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Girlfriend, Character, Play

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• I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Vacation, Long, Perfect

  Interview with Joel Keller, tv.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

  David Bowie

  Commitment, Years, Together Again

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• You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Fighting, Winning, Nfl

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• Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.

  Tom Brady

  Play, Long, Quarterback

  Interview, www.patriots.com. May 28, 2009.

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• I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.

  Tom Brady

  Jobs, Team, Greatest Fear

  Interview with Jimmy Traina, www.si.com. June 21, 2012.

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• For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Running, Home

  "Bill Bryson changes course for 'One Summer'". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2013.

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• I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all.

  Bill Bryson

  Kids, Voice, Long

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

  Sandra Bullock

  Long, Female, Roles

  "McCarthy & Bullock talk 'Heat'". Interview with MSN Movies, entertaintastic.com.

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• I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Jobs, Long, Workaholic

  Roundtable interview, www.ign.com. October 5, 2004.

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• Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race.

  Herman Cain

  Running, Race, Media

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• I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

  James Cameron

  Mean, Successful, Agreement

  "Man of Extremes The Return of James Cameron" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Marriage, Spiritual, Disappointment

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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• Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

  Ray Charles

  Cake, Long, Rays

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• I am a big Ellen fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

  Margaret Cho

  Kids, San Francisco, Long

  "My Ellen Visit, Deferred" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2008.

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• I am star-struck but also I've known a lot of people for a long time. Like I'm super star-struck by Grant Lee Phillips and Jon Brion but I've known them for 17 years. So it's kinda like weird to be star-struck still, but I still am!

  Margaret Cho

  Stars, Years, Long

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• The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Long, Endless, Nevertheless

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• Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Long Distance Relationship, Encouragement

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.311, Best Books on

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• My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else.

  George Clooney

  Father, Smart, College

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• I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

  Leonard Cohen

  Long, Realising, Verses

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• Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Wisdom, Time, Pain

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• Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.

  Gail Collins

  Sports, Team, Long

  "The Power in a Photo". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2011.

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• You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Years, Long, Done

  "Harry Connick Jr. On Dolphins, New Orleans And His Marriage Secret". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Five years on TV is a really, really long time.

  Lauren Conrad

  Years, Long, Tvs

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