Long Time Quotes - Page 8

• Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about the rote memorization of facts. That's a discipline issue. You need the rote skill in order to have something to improvise off of, otherwise you are simply playing air guitar.

  John Medina

  Air Guitar, Order, Skills

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have to have a plot - I say "obviously," although I think a lot of fiction doesn't, and nothing seems to happen. But to me, there should be something that happens, and it should be at least vaguely plausible. And because the readers are going to be with these characters for a long time, you have to get to know them and like them and want to know what happens to them.

  Dave Barry

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• In Australia surfing was for the oiks. It was always rebellious. And sadly it was for a long time a bit unreflective and macho and anti-intellectual. Unlike other sports it was essentially a youth cult, like rock and roll. But like rock and roll its people grew up.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Australia, Rocks

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now. I started so young and went so hard for so long. And I guess it was about feeling I had the space to look over my shoulder.

  Tim Winton

  Writing, Who I Am, Space

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• I can't make something 'useful' to me in a writing sense for a very long time. I don't have any journalistic instinct. And I do keep a journal, but it's neither very revealing nor fruitful for work. Stuff just bubbles up from the swamp later.

  Tim Winton

  Writing, Long, Swamps

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so sometimes I'll get a little bit nuts if I write something I know is good a certain way, and some editor because of some restriction he has and wants to change it that I know is going to make it less funny that'll piss me off and then I'm inclined to go, "Well, hey I've been doing this a long time, maybe you should..." That doesn't happen that often, but I'm more likely to say that now than I would have been a long time ago. Because dammit, I'm infallible!

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Nuts, Editors

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Long, Pieces

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.

  Cleve Jones

  Thinking, Remember You, Remembers You

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• I'm one of the luckiest Arab actors on the planet, because I've done, I think, two of the finest Arab roles that have been out in mainstream cinema for a very long time.

  Alexander Siddig

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Source: www.chud.com

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• In my career, whether it's a big or a small movie, when I've worked on something for a long time, like [Ivan] Drago in Rocky IV, they start to take on a life of their own.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Careers, Long, Rocky Iv

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.

  Frank Stallone

  Thinking, Long, Guy

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics, I think, are more indicative of problems with some things going on at the frontier of physics than ideas that are gonna last.

  Adam Frank

  Philosophical, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

  Nigel Gibson

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I was pretty shocked [having concert in the Madison Square Garden]. It could have gone either way. But I think it's the right time. Nobody does what we do with taking the visuals and making it a complete rock 'n' roll show with the really good songs. Nobody's done that in a long time.

  Vince Neil

  Song, Garden, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We have been in the process of reprogramming men and the way they are raised for a long time.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Long, Way

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• This effort to reprogram men has been going on a long time. It's not something we need to start now. We're in the middle of it and I think it's one of the reasons there is such confusion between men and women and the roles they're supposed to be playing, because they're at war with nature.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It just amazed me that so many people came to see my show even to a place that I've never been to. I was independent for a long time and I knew every person who I sold my CD to. But now with a major record contract, you don't get to meet every person who buys your CD. It's a new feeling, and it's very inspiring that they have been waiting for me to come to their town and sing.

  Angela Aki

  Independent, Cds, Long

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I was influenced at an early age by Gandhi, and I have read many biographies of him. I have been greatly influenced in the last twenty years by Mandela. It is amazing that he has managed to keep such a balance, that he came out of prison after such a long time as a rounded, holistic person who could reach difficult accommodations with generosity.

  Mary Robinson

  Years, Long, Generosity

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Long, People, President

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• I earned my professional credibility a long time ago in a male-dominated world. I just hope that as a woman, I bring in an extra dimension to the job. I bring in the sensitivity of being a woman and a mother, and that means I pay more attention to women, children, and the social needs of society.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• Clearly, I think that there have been racial problems in America for a long time. I still think that, particularly during the second half of the Obama presidency, there has been a lot of emotion, a lot of feeling stirred up.

  Marty Walsh

  Thinking, America, Long

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I truly do live my life a day at a time. When I talk to people trying to get through anything, it's a day at a time. If people stop to think, "It's going to be potentially three years and 10 months for the new president to come in," that's a very long time and that can have major effects on somebody's psyche. But if you take this thing a day at a time, and break it down a little differently, and do what you can do today, it will make it easier for people to move forward, and it makes it easier for me to move forward.

  Marty Walsh

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because we're trying so hard to say, "I'm not going to be like my mother" that we blame her for her condition. If we didn't blame her for her condition, we would have to admit that it could happen to us, too. I spent a long time doing that, thinking that my mother's problems were uniquely her fault.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, Long, Role Models

  Source: www.pbs.org

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