Long Way Quotes - Page 18

• I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

  Charley Pride

  Long, Might, Way

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• When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.

  Steve Martin

  Stars, Fall, Long

  Steve Martin (1997). “L.A. Story: And, Roxanne : Two Screenplays”

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• If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent. If I can be competent, and have moments of originality, that's all I would ask for.

  Jon Stewart

  Long, Majority, Way

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• (The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and the performer. So there's no sort of long way around a viral committee of animators.

  Andy Serkis

  Long, Perfect, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• Not part of any London combination and you have to go a long way from London really to... to throw that feeling off. So, it's right and fitting that the Beatles came from Liverpool. If they hadn't, I wouldn't have got involved. It wouldn't have interested me. And they wouldn't have hired me.

  Derek Taylor

  Long, Feelings, London

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• It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations. But obviously we still have a long way to go.

  Dana Bash

  Country, Running, Long

  "McConnell: Race relations have 'gotten better' under Obama" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2014.

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• Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

  Michael Palin

  Garden, Long, People

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• I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.

  Papa John Creach

  Fall, Long, Pennsylvania

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• I'm happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that's the one thing I'm sure about.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Long, Way, Stills

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.

  Kandyse McClure

  Moving, Home, Race

  "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau a good deal the worse for wearing, a coxcomb extremely shattered, a pretty gentleman very insipid, a baronet very solemn, a squire very fat, a fop much affected, a barrister learned in Coke upon Littleton, but who knows nothing of `long ways for marry as will', an heir apparent, very awkward; which of these will cast a favourable eye upon me I don't know.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Eye, Men, Long

  Elizabeth Montagu, Emily J. Climenson (2011). “Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761”, p.31, Cambridge University Press

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• The plan is that there would be three seasons [in Taboo], and, as with Peaky Blinders, I have had a destination in mind from the beginning, because I think it helps as a writer. The destination in mind is that James Keziah Delaney sets foot on Nootka Sound. But that's a long way off.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Feet, Long

  Source: deadline.com

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• You know, if you've got nine people that you've got to get a treat for - because you do have sweet food, even if you're poor - you can't go out and buy a Sara Lee cake. You buy the big bag of cookies, those chocolate and vanilla ones with the icing. That has a lot of trans fat in it, but it goes a long way with a lot of people.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Sweet, Cake, Long

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although she is very independent, even somewhat of a loner, she is very affected by other peoples' opinions. At the opening of the book, her ideas of success and achievement are largely defined by the approval of others; over the arc of the story, I think that begins to change a little.

  Liza Campbell

  Book, Independent, Thinking

  Source: newwest.net

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• I've come a long way to get nowhere at all, I thought. And I've spent everything I have to get here.

  Richard Kadrey

  Long, Way

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• And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sports, Wall, Sadness

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.930, Macmillan

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• Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Long

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• Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life, the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.

  Art Linkletter

  Positive, Attitude, Optimistic

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• The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wise, Long, Creative

  Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

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• Let us be patient with one another,
  And even patient with ourselves.
  We have a long, long way to go.
  So let us hasten along the road,
  The road of human tenderness and generosity.
  Groping, we may find one another's hands in the dark.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Dark, Hands, Long

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• Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

  Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

  Past, Years, Long

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• A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

  Nelson Mandela

  Independent, Compassion, Concern For Others

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

  George Wald

  Death, Science, Long

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• Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Commitment, Hard Work

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• And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

  Roger Penrose

  Thinking, Long, People

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