Short Quotes
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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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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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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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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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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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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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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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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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
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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 don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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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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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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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.
