"You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love."
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"It feels a long way up and down from zero."
"The dread of futility has been my life-long plague."
"If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?"
"I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things I learned in Hollywood but I kept some of them too. And things I kept were: don't be precious, kill your darlings is always good, give it dynamics - you don't want it to be all joyful, all sad."
"I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise it just becomes long and rambling indulgent."
"In terms of threshold, as long as it's based in reality, you can go pretty far, as long as you buy that it's really happening."
"Call-and-response style, yes, exactly. So whenever different groups get together then there has to be this long period of negotiation. How will we worship? What's acceptable? What's not? If I want to say "Amen" can I?"
"We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient."
"Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward."
"We change for the good so long as good exists around us."
"I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock."
"When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you."
"Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses."
"I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been "writer.""
"Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead."
"To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down."
"What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant."
"If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head."
"Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness."