“A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could.” PeopleLittlesLongAbleAttentionStageLong TimePaidLong Time Ago Author:Lauren Potter
“Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.” LongI CanAbleActingHavensLong TimeOpposites Author:Tammin Sursok
“It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.” LongAbleTakenFrontsLong TimeCameras Author:James Purefoy
“You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.” LongPlayProblemBodyAbleLastsMovingGamesFeltLong TimeGood ThingsFinalsNo ProblemTorque Author:Nomar Garciaparra
“Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.” FeelsWritingTryingLongCharacterAbleFictionTalkingCrazyLong TimeOkayParisInterviewsReviewsFiction WritersReally Long Author:Sloane Crosley
“I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.” KnowsYearsLongTwoFactsAbleEnjoyLong TimeLettersThreatHardestTwo YearsFuneralBuddyPolicemenDetectivesBosomsFbiPassed Away Author:Hank Aaron
“America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.” PeopleWorldLongHas BeensAbleAmericaLong TimeDiscoveryUniversityPhysicsPracticalsAdmirePrizeChemistryApplicationProvenNobelInnovatorsNobel PrizeGadgets Author:Jimmy Carter
“I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.” WantWritingLongAbleGuyNextOne ThingProjectsLong TimeScriptsThese DaysImpatientFelicityAliases Author:J. J. Abrams
“After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.” MenWritingLongBookAbleThreeNextAcceptingLong TimeTraditionMalesQuestioningTime SpentHonoraryLearning How To Write Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.” LongAbleWantedLeftLong TimeLong Time AgoNsaMilestone Author:Edward Snowden
“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.” KnowsFeelsWritingWellsChildrenLongCountryStoriesUseHandsSeemsAbleMovingValuesKnownTreeStreetsWallFitWalkingElementsLong TimeToolsFamiliarEaseVocationMisunderstood Author:Natalia Ginzburg
“[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.” WritingWellsLongBookAbleLong TimeRewardsPromotionWriting Well Author:Rosellen Brown