Long Time Quotes - Page 12

• We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

  Billy Corgan

  Responsibility, Long, Needs

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• Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

  Elvis Costello

  Long, Scary, Would Be

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• I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.

  Daniel Craig

  Cowboy, Play, Long

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• For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

  Sloane Crosley

  Space, Long, Shrinking

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• If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

  John Cusack

  Dream, Thinking, Long

  "'I'm basically a brand'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2007.

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• My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Mother, Long

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• I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully, I'll be here for a long time.

  Johnny Damon

  Boston, Long, Hopefully

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• I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.

  Matt Damon

  New York, Vacation, Long

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• By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

  Claire Danes

  Tired, Yale, Bored

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• Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.

  Claire Danes

  New York, Growing Up, Confused

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Guitar, Self

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• You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Character, Long, Waiting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Long, Negative, Way

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• For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.

  Johnny Depp

  Honesty, Long, Normal

  "'I don't want my kids to Google me and read lies and rumours': Johnny Depp frets over the internet and the price of fame". Interview with John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. May 9, 2012.

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• I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Long, Easy

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• I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Skills, Long, People

  "Zooey Deschanel talks about Gigantic". Interview, www.movies.ie. June 30, 2009.

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• I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

  Ani DiFranco

  Long, Gone, Whole Life

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• I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.

  Ani DiFranco

  Father, Kids, Thinking

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

  Philip K. Dick

  Education, Humorous, Learning

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

  Umberto Eco

  Player, Men, Skills

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• If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

  Brian Eno

  Years, Skills, Long

  "Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Years, Long, People

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• I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

  Freddy Fender

  Love, Romantic, Hurt

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• The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

  James Fenton

  Dark, Long, Racism

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• I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.

  Craig Ferguson

  America, Long, Stories

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