Lengthy Quotes

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(reflecting on his lengthy acting career) It`s always seemed to me like a mission. A holy one, like the Blues Brothers. It`s a marathon. You can`t quit; even coming in dead last has honor. Quitting doesn`t. Look, I had absolute faith in my future when I was starving in New York and no one believed in me besides me and my girlfriend. I`d be stupid to lose that faith after I`ve become a fucking icon. Oh, yes. And I love the work.

- David Carradine

It`s one of the hardest feats in the music industry, maintaining and continuing to keep doing at the same pace for a lengthy amount of years.

- Jermaine Dupri

(reflecting on his lengthy acting career) "It`s always seemed to me like a mission. A holy one, like the Blues Brothers. It`s a marathon. You can`t quit, even coming in dead last has honor. Quitting doesn`t. Look, I had absolute faith in my future when I was starving in New York and no one believed in me besides me and my girlfriend. I`d be stupid to lose that faith after I`ve become a fucking icon. Oh, yes. And I love the work."

- David Carradine

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

- Marc Almond

(on enduring lengthy sessions in the makeup chair to be transformed into Lorne on "Angel":) "The makeup artist makes it so comfortable. This year, he even bought a 13-inch, flat-screen TV and a DVD player, so I can watch movies when I`m in there. Before, it was three hours staring at the mirror. He and I talk, but there are a lot of times I can`t talk because he`s working on me. He keeps the air-conditioning on for me. It`s so pleasant. I couldn`t ask for anything more. I used to have a lot of difficulty with it, but now it`s cool." (March 14, 2003)

- Andy Hallett

There have been dramatic changes in the way murder cases are handled. Judges now have to schedule a lengthy sentencing hearing and there are now only five inmates on death row, down from close to 40 in August.

- Nancy Anderson

That many charges is going to entail a fairly lengthy trial in Common Pleas Court, ... I think we understood the federal government had more resources to try a case of this nature.

- John Peck

Basically, Edmond has a lengthy record and the tips that came in about him was that he had no regard for life. According to reports, he has family that`s been helping him,

- James Bond

We are also providing additional, enhanced services for gun crime victims and witnesses involved in these lengthy and large gun-crime prosecutions,

- Michael Bryant

But when you`re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it`s amazing.

- Wole Soyinka

I`ve had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They`re gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they`re buying them.

- Kent Conrad

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

- Adm James D. Watkins

I`ve had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

- Alan Kirk

I think in order to repeat, in will be an emotional ride and whether they can remain focused through a lengthy six weeks to the championship.

- Alan Kirk

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

- Albert Ho

The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

- Alexander Henry

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.

- Amy Popp

I hope that you are not afraid of tough classes. I never did have a cinch class. I hope that you are not afraid of lengthy periods of preparation.

- Andrew DiPasquale

Precious metals are currently the in-form sector, having recently emerged from lengthy consolidations over the previous eighteen months or more,

- Anthony Nelson

This was a rather lengthy and complicated process, ... Anything of this magnitude isn`t going to be a slam-dunk process.

- B. C. Forbes