Long Time Quotes - Page 11

• The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Children, Taken, Long

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• I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Dad, Father, Long

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• It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Long, Appreciate, Parent

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• After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Thinking, Two, Long

  "I'm 47. Unlike most actresses I don't lie about my age" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2008.

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• I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny Life, Reality, Long

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• Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Sep 07, 2016

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• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Long, Silence

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• Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

  Lech Walesa

  Long, Dictator, Should

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• Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

  Christopher Walken

  Jobs, Long, Dancer

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• I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

  Christopher Walken

  Uncles, Father, Long

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• One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.

  Christopher Walken

  Father, Thinking, Play

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• For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

  Alice Walker

  Long, Shy, Ugly

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.55, The New Press

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• I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

  Dionne Warwick

  Careers, Icons, Long

  "Dionne Warwick: Living for Now". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

  Simone Weil

  Truth, Dwelling, Long

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

  James Whistler

  Art, Men, Long

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• If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

  Ron White

  Long, Looks, Common

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• I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.

  Bradley Whitford

  Years, Talking, Long

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• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  Olivia Wilde

  Ideas, Long, Body Types

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• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Girl, Baby, Grandmother

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

  Serena Williams

  Athlete, Long, Black

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• I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

  Carnie Wilson

  Friendship, Years, Coping Mechanisms

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• Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course, the study of stem cells is one of the most exciting areas in biology, but I think it is unlikely that embryonic stem cells are likely to be useful in healthcare for a long time.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, Cells, Britain And America

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• It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

  Steve Wozniak

  Change, Thinking, Long

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• No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

  Felix Dennis

  Girl, Long, Dresses

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• I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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