#long

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down. ↗

— Randy Travis

#down #go #going #last #long

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#arrive #destination #emerges #goes #going

You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music. ↗

— Obie Trice

#black #bring #career #cent #detroit

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#before #fathers #get #glad #grandfathers

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school. ↗

— Boris Vallejo

#doing #how #know #learn #long

I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry. ↗

— Emily VanCamp

#boyfriend #comes #given #guy #hurry

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#ago #blank #down #empowering #exist

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#along #anybody #because #being #deserve

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable. ↗

— J. Martin Kohe

#another #being #cannot #customs #different

You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term. ↗

— Saku Koivu

#going #guys #long #long term #need