“The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work.” PeopleWritingYearsLongTwoEnoughWould BeJobsThreeReadingStuffWeekMaterialsInternetEasierSixLong TimeScaryI RealizedVersionsBoredDiariesLong Time AgoFunny ThingsHad Enough Author:Jason Mulgrew
“I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.” PeopleThinkingWorldLongHas BeensKidsSchoolSocialFeltMy OwnGoneThis WorldAmountSkillsAnxietyLong TimeEnormousWealthyPolishedPrepsSocial Skills Author:Dan Chaon
“I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.” PeopleWayLongAbleLong TimePublic Education Author:Mary Burke
“The funny thing is, this is what everyone assumes, that anybody who talks has an axe to grind. I've been around a long time, and yes, there obviously are people who disagree with policy who talk to me, but it's less axes to grind than people who are really motivated. One of the terrible things about this Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news.” PeopleWantLongPolicyTerribleNewsLong TimeAssumingAdministrationMotivatedDisagreeTerrible ThingsFunny ThingsGrindBad NewsTalk To MeAxes Author:Seymour Hersh
“Have you seen Cowspiracy? It takes a lot more land to feed a meat eater than to feed a vegan or a vegetarian. It's something I'd love to get into but it's very hard to persuade people to stop things they've been doing for a long time. So maybe it needs to start with the next generation. Everyone needs to raise their children with a bit more responsibility.” PeopleNeedsChildrenLongHardNextBitsResponsibilityGenerationsLandLong TimeRaisesMeatVegetarianVeganNext Generation Author:Douglas Booth
“For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change].” PeopleWorldWayLongWarRolesHappenedLong TimeFemaleIncrediblesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiFactoriesWorld War IFabulousFemale RolesWomen's Roles Author:Geena Davis
“After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.” PeopleBelieveChildrenLongHas BeensSelfBehaviorLong TimeAddictionAlternativesOverweightTrue PeopleSelf Defeating Behavior Author:Wayne Dyer
“I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. So Peter's known that I've been heading towards directing for a long time. But I always thought my first outing would be a couple of people and a digital camera in the back streets of London somewhere!” PeopleFirstsLongWould BeFilmKnownLordStreetsCoupleProjectsLong TimeCamerasLondonRingsDigitalPeterHeadingsShort FilmsVideogameDigital Cameras Author:Andy Serkis
“When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice. I know everybody mentions Azzedine Alaïa, but he's been going for a long time in the system - showing to people, selling to clients - and I think it's admirable how he's transformed it into his own system in a way, but it's still a system.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantLongStillsArtistChoicesFashionLong TimeSellingDesignerTransformedClientsAdmirableFashion Designer Author:Raf Simons
“I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.” PeopleLongNovelLong TimeSeriesCoincidence Author:Alexander Chee
“I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that I was a total fraud because I was a television writer.” PeopleLongSaidCarTelevisionLong TimeFraudBumperStickerBumper Sticker Author:George Meyer
“The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to keep swinging at the same targets over and over. It took me a long time to realize, but most of the shackles that I flailed against were just illusory.” PeopleYearsLongSeemsRealizingCoupleLong TimeOver ItTargetLocksIllusoryShackles Author:George Meyer
“There was a big age difference between me and my brothers - about 10 years - so I was an only child for a long time. I used to hang out a lot on my own. I played a lot of weird games with a lot of imaginary people. I guess it's kind of roleplaying.” PeopleYearsKindChildrenLongBigsAgeUsedGamesDifferencesMy OwnBrotherLong TimeMy BrotherHanging OutImaginaryOnly ChildAge Difference Author:Noel Fielding
“I've always wanted to have a radio show. It has been a dream of mine for a long time. With a radio show I can sit in a studio, or ultimately even sit in my own living room, and talk to hundreds of thousands of people.” PeopleLongHas BeensI CanShowsDreamWantedMy OwnRoomsMinesLong TimeRadioStudiosLiving Room Author:Marianne Williamson
“I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through. It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn't do things right and had a poor business model.” PeopleLongFeelingsPoorLong TimeModelsAdvantageGlamorousMusic BusinessBusiness Models Author:Adam Levine
“For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.” PeopleLongStillsChristianLong TimeTraditionalVets Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.” PeopleGivingLongReasonGiving UpLong TimeVictimSpendingReputationDelayJust Give Up Author:Kevin Shields
“It took a long time for me to walk. I was falling down all the time. But I ended up being one of the dangerous men, who broke so many people's noses, which is bad.” PeopleMenLongFallWalksDangerousLong TimeBrokeNosesFalling DownDangerous Man Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.” PeopleKnowsLongI CanWantedNew YorkLong TimeMusicalReally Long Author:Missi Pyle
“I think that's something that investment banks have worried about for a long time and are continuing to worry about, but it's not an easy solution when you have lots of people betting the company's money, how do you really allocate those risks? How do you make sure that the people that take the risks are feeling the risks in an appropriate kind of fashion?” PeopleThinkingKindLongFeelingsEasyCompanyWorryRiskFashionLong TimeSolutionsInvestmentWorriedAppropriateContinuingBetting Author:Robert F. Engle
“That's the person I plan on being for a very long time: someone who stands up, someone who is an advocate for people, [even if it's for] something that some people think is only hair. I think it's more than just that. I want to be a spokesperson for self-love and for diversity.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantPersonsLongSelfPlansHairSelf LoveDiversityLong Time Author:Zendaya
“There seems to be for a long time now a range of issues that the Australian people want to talk about, but for some reason politicians of various shapes and stripes have decided they don't want to talk about.” PeopleWantLongReasonSeemsIssuesPoliticianShapesLong TimeDecidedVariousRangeAustralianStripes Author:Cory Bernardi
“I guess, a lot of people think is a long time between albums. It was needed for me. I went through a lot to get the album ["Wild Things"] finished. I actually went through a lot to even get the album started.” PeopleThinkingLongNeededLong TimeAlbumsFinishedWild Things Author:Ladyhawke
“My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.” PeopleLongHas BeensSeemsSpiritualJourneyTeachingSeriousLong TimeSpiritual JourneySangha Author:Beryl Bender Birch
“I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words, I don't have the vocabulary. I think if I forced myself to read in Spanish - you know, I always say I'm going to, but I lose my patience reading in Spanish, because I really do read the way a third grader does, mouthing the words. That takes a long time!” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayLongDoeI CanStoriesReadingLosesLaughingLong TimeThirdsVocabularyMaking People LaughChatterFunny Story Author:Sandra Cisneros
“A lot of people have lost interest in watching England play. To get motivated to watch international football, you need your country to be having some form of success and England haven't had any for a long time now.” PeopleNeedsLongCountryPlayFormLostInterestWatchesHavensFootballLong TimeEnglandInternationalMotivated Author:Michael Owen
“I was very combative as a creative person at that time [while The Ben Stiller Show]. I didn't understand how to play politics with the studios. I didn't know how to creatively collaborate with the people who were paying the bills, and that came up all the time on every project I was doing, and it took me a really long time to figure out how to collaborate in a healthy way.” PeopleKnowsWayPersonsLongPlayShowsKnow HowCreativeFiguresHealthyProjectsLong TimeBillsStudiosCreative PersonReally Long Author:Judd Apatow
“People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.” PeopleKnowsWayLongStillsI CanRunningSchoolAbilityCareersTalentDangerousColorLong TimeHigh SchoolSkinsBallsThreatAfrican AmericanRunnersStereotypeQuarterback Author:Deshaun Watson
“For me, what's wonderful for me at this stage of my life is that I get to work with people I've admired for a long time.” PeopleLongLife IsWonderfulStageLong Time Author:Ernie Hudson
“We lost our way a long time ago with technology. Just because something is an advancement by going digital - that was a huge (expletive) mistake. It was a way for people to make money, but it sure didn't improve sound or quality of record making. It made it faster, cheaper, but it isn't as durable.” PeopleWayLongMadeLostSoundMistakeQualityTechnologyRecordsHugeLong TimeMade ItFasterMaking MoneyDigitalAdvancementLong Time AgoCheaper Author:John Mellencamp
“You've got to try to figure out which is the bigger benefit and which is the bigger loser. It nearly killed him [Eric Clapton ]; he was in a very, very bad way for a long time, but he came through it. Most people don't come through it because they don't have the money to buy the people to look after them.” PeopleWayTryingLooksLongFiguresBenefitsLong TimeBiggerLoserEric Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“My mom has kind of been more of the emotional support system. One time I was really feeling all out of it, just dealing with a lot of cooks in the kitchen and adjusting to what it means to be in the music industry, and I called her. One of the first things she said to me was 'You have to be thankful that these people even like you, no one liked me, at all, I was not really accepted for a very long time.'” PeopleFirstsKindMeanLongSaidFeelingsSupportEmotionalLike YouMomIndustryLong TimeMy MomAcceptedCooksKitchenOne TimeBeing ThankfulMusic IndustryAdjustingSupport SystemsEmotional SupportCooks In The Kitchen Author:Jillian Hervey
“For a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite.” PeopleLongBeautifulLandTvsLong TimeOppositesHandsomeBeautiful People Author:Judd Apatow
“When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than I did before, because I loved it when I first sang in Wales, in a pub or a club. I loved it then, getting up and singing. Or as a kid in school, I've always loved to sing. But I think when you've been around a long time, it's even more satisfying to think that people are listening to me now, and I've been in the business for a long time.” PeopleThinkingFirstsLongI CanKidsSchoolYoungSongEnjoyListeningLong TimeSingingClubsSatisfyingPubsWales Author:Tom Jones
“I had also wanted to work with Aaron McGruder for a long time and there were a few other people on the project that I really wanted to work with,so it seems like a miracle of a project ['Black Jesus'] was handed to me.” PeopleLongSeemsWantedJesusBlackProjectsLong TimeMiracle Author:Kali Hawk
“I just think that also controlling women is a way to control the whole narrative. And so I think when you've oppressed a people for a really long time, you're terrified to give them any power because they may have some reflection of how horrible you've been and you're terrified of being treated that way. All that we want is to be our best selves, but that's hard for them to understand.” PeopleThinkingWayWantGivingMayLongSelfHardWholeLong TimeReflectionHorribleTreatedNarrativeOppressedTerrifiedBest SelfReally LongControlling Women Author:Lizz Winstead
“For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.” PeopleTryingLongI CanFeelingsIssuesBalanceLong TimeBeatsReally Long Author:Anthony Green
“Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.” PeopleThinkingLooksLongLong TimePrisonBad People Author:Ava DuVernay
“I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was awesome, because it changed a lot for me professionally, but then creatively, it became a whole other thing, with J.J. [Abrams] and Chris [Pine] and the people I got to know. Now I just feel like it's our jobs to be open and to keep moving stuff forward. I don't know what that means. This is the first time in a long time that I have no idea what's happening next. As scary as that is, and as anxiety-provoking as that can still be, it's also really exciting.” PeopleKnowsFeelsFirstsMeanLongStillsIdeasWholeJobsMovingNextStarsStuffRolesExampleChangedAnxietyLong TimeHappeningsFirst TimeExcitingYeahScaryNo IdeaPrimeProvokingKeep MovingAbram Author:Zachary Quinto
“I've seen [Donald Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower. But other people fell in love with him as a reality star. So does that mean that the entertainment industry is doing something wrong? I think reality TV answered that question a long time ago: Yes, it's doing something terribly wrong. But there's some great reality TV, and I'm not bagging on it completely.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansMeanLongDoeHas BeensMadeShowsRealityFilmStarsHuman BeingsTvsIndustryTrumpLong TimeEntertainmentShowersTv ShowsLong Time AgoTabloidsReality TvEntertainment IndustryDistastefulCameos Author:Joss Whedon
“People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.” PeopleLongHas BeensTwoPartyLong TimeUnhappyTwo Party System Author:Julianne Malveaux
“When [George W.] Bush was elected, I think they thought I would have some sort of special "in" with that administration, to provide some sort of inside poop. Which is not something I'd be interested in doing, and anyway, I didn't. I actually knew more people in his dad's administration. So it was obviously winding down at Rolling Stone, and they were having financial troubles, too. They weren't getting the advertising, and the issues were getting thin. They fired Bob Love, who'd been my editor there for a long time.” PeopleThinkingLongIssuesTroubleSpecialDadLong TimeStonesFinancialAdvertisingAdministrationEditorsBobRollingRolling StonesPoopWinding Down Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.” PeopleMenWayFeelsWellsKindLittlesLongStillsEndsPlayCharacterSeemsHappensFunBlackWhitePoorAcceptingStruggleRichWrittenModernLong TimeOrdinaryProductionsRingsContemporaryAll KindsBest ThingsBellsLong Time AgoSimilarityRecessionsGreat DepressionGrandpaBlack Or WhiteRich Or PoorAccentuateLoving FamilyGreat Recession Author:Chris Hart
“I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingLongTwoNovelKnow HowOughtLong Time Author:Alice Mattison
“Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.” PeopleWorldKindLongLastsCausesCenturyMonthsSixLong TimeHappeningsAreasWestConvictionEightScalesIceDataSoilStableShelvesMeltingArcticGreenland Author:Bill McKibben
“I was, like, "Wow, is this ever going to happen again? Am I ever going to work with another bunch of people I get along with this well?" And then, sure enough, Threshold was just a great bunch of people, and I thought, "Hey, I could hang with these people for a long time!" But, unfortunately, it was 13 episodes and we were out of there.” PeopleWellsLongEnoughHappensLong TimeBunchHeyWowEpisodesGoing To WorkThreshold Author:Brent Spiner
“I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.” PeopleWritingLittlesLongRememberBitsLittle BitLong TimeLarryKramer Author:Kevin Sessums
“The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.” PeopleHeartKindLongStoriesHeardEconomicLong TimeRateAll KindsUnemploymentSpectrumHeart WrenchingUnemployment Rate Author:Nat Hentoff
“I'm in a wonderful position now because the rise of the whole Houston scene, the scene that we've been doing for years that people really didn't embrace a long time ago and now they're embracing it. It's good to be in the middle of that during the uprising.” PeopleYearsLongWholeWonderfulMiddlePositionSceneLong TimeEmbraceLong Time AgoUprisingHouston Author:Chamillionaire
“You know, Russia today is, what, 200 million people? In land mass, it's probably 50 times the size [of Japan], in natural resources a hundred times the size! Russia's not doing all that badly. The public there - not everybody - but they have things that the West offered, [that] were only available in the West a long time ago.” PeopleKnowsLongTodayNaturalMillionsLandMassLong TimeHundredResourcesWestSizeAvailableRussiaJapanLong Time AgoNatural Resources Author:Michael Bloomberg