Short Quotes
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'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
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My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
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The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
