#long time

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#almost #although #anything #been #before

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#because #came #drove #earned #fast

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#anything #chasing #decade #doing #goals

When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#ago #because #britney #britney spears #come

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#back #becoming #been #career #coming

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it. ↗

— Bill Skarsgard

#acting #always #because #earned #hadn

I haven't been on the stage in a long time. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#haven #i #long #long time #stage

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#back #civilization #dark #dark ages #does

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#fingers #i #letter #long #long time

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#am #good #i #i am #i write