Quotes with long-shot

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  • Barry Hannah Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Bob Ross Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. I achieved that a long time ago with TV. I don't need any more.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • James C. Humes Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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  • Bobby Cox Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
    Bobby Cox
    American baseball player and manager (1941 - )
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  • Anne Frank Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Bill Walton My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Elayne Boosler My brother's gay. My parents don't mind as long as he marries a doctor.
    Source: New York Magazine 22 March 1976, Funny Girl
    Elayne Boosler
    American comedian (1952 - )
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  • Brad Wenstrup My district goes a long ways across the southern part of Ohio, so just the opportunity to get to know so many people is a highlight itself, win or lose.
    Brad Wenstrup
    American politician, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Reserve" class="mw-redirect&# (1958 - )
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  • Barry Lopez My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Marianne Moore My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Barbara Cooney My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Bill Paxton My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bob Menendez My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Philip Roth My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
    Source: Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Billy Idol My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Adam Baldwin My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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