"Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long."
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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it"
"I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result."
"America is one long expectoration."
"Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedly long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any."
"Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]"
"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."
"Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach."
"You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity."
"Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily."
"He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called."
"I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work."
"I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other way of writing. I think the thing that keeps me with comics is there's still so much to be done. There's still this huge unplowed field, this huge unexplored wilderness, and as long as I can keep doing new things and coming up with new things, I will."
"How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security."
"Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time."
"That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories."
"The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices."
"Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood."
"As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure."
"If you are poor, you are not likely to live long."