Long Quotes - Page 593

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.

I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.

He's brilliant. At first, I thought, 'Oh, is he going to be Hollywood stud-like?' But he's a really kind, wonderful person. He said to me one day early in the making of the movie, 'You know, I was kind of worried about you'. He thought I was going to be a perfect skin, which I am certainly not. It didn't take long for Leo to crack and see who I really am, and we became very close. but, I must say, he is absolutely gorgeous.

Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.

I find myself improvising a lot. But, sometimes I'll come us with a chorus or just one line and it will sort of hang out for a long time before it get's flushed out into a real living song.

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.

I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.