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Being short works for me. -- Freema Agyeman
Again, racing for me was about energy management. -- Frank Shorter
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. -- Lynn Abbey
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. -- Amy Bloom
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place. -- Maira Kalman
Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.' -- Heather Morris
Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short. -- Rachel Zoe
Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director. -- John Lasseter
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. -- Charlotte Bronte
A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work. -- Harold Pinter
I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.' -- Christian Louboutin
A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short. -- Mickey Rooney
I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me. -- Dick Cavett
I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features. -- Bill Plympton
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing. -- Frank Shorter
I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly. -- Jack Whitehall
Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied. -- Martin Short
Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be. -- Columbus Short
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace. -- Martin Short
People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning. -- Clare Short
Goals help you overcome short-term problems. -- Hannah More
I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years. -- Eve Bunting
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. -- Jack Adams
I was a tremendous fan of the original Kenneth Grahame short story, 'The Reluctant Dragon.' -- Tony DiTerlizzi
Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have. -- Leigh Steinberg
I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts. -- John Cena
If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America. -- George Catlin
I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning. -- Raul Castro
Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette. -- Grantland Rice
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see. -- Patton Oswalt
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise. -- Clifford Odets
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. -- Ralph W. Sockman
I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats. -- Mark Billingham
But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now. -- Fred Thompson
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world? -- Elizabeth Bishop
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. -- Allen Toussaint
The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves everything. Or, they try to have some short cuts with the, those people they were dealing with. -- Bui Diem
A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments, soccer games, romances, best friends, location of friend's houses, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house. -- Matt Groening
Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past. -- Gary Shteyngart
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.' -- Annie Besant
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it. -- Thomas Browne
True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people's talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot. -- Edward Norton
A short skirt and lots of makeup won't impress me. -- Harry Styles
In reality, Mom just really hates me having short hair. -- Candace Gingrich-Jones
Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology. -- Pico Iyer
People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long. -- Alija Izetbegovic
Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog. -- Edwina Currie
The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long. -- George Saunders
Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator. -- Heather Morris
I have fallen short in my life, but my faith has always brought me home. -- Edward Kennedy
The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities - in short, life. -- Porfirio Rubirosa
Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time. -- Robert Scoble
You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch. -- Sam Langford
Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life. -- Liv Ullmann
Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived. -- ASAP Ferg
In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden. -- Hakim Bey
Nefertiti, the most beautiful calico in the world, chose me as her own six short years ago. -- P. C. Cast
I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth. -- James Cameron
Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them. -- Bob Hoskins
I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it. -- Dorothy Hamill
Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all. -- Robert Herrick
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition. -- Gary Coleman
I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me. -- Peter Jacobson
I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. -- John Grisham
For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish. -- Djuna Barnes
Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide. -- Mel Brooks
Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me. -- Kurt Vonnegut
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. -- Lord Byron
Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it. -- Alesha Dixon
I was a lady gunda in school. Everyone was scared of me, and I was really short and round. -- Bipasha Basu
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly. -- Paulo Coelho
Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight -- William Shakespeare
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap. -- John Lennon
I am my best self when I have super-short hair. That's when I feel most like me and most confident. -- Halle Berry
They go the long way but we take the short cut Give me the blonde hair, long weave, short cut -- Nicki Minaj
I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you -- Adele
The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself. -- Gregory Alan Williams
I'm short and curvy, but I think people want to work with me for reasons other than what I look like. -- Josephine de La Baume
He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine. -- Melina Marchetta
In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax. -- Jenny Lawson
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it. -- Judith Guest
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally. -- Robbie Robertson
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me. -- Stef Penney
I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me." -- Virginia Woolf
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. -- Anne Carson
I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that. -- Amy Winehouse
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. -- John Barton
I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me. -- Jonathan Evison
Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all. -- D. Antoinette Foy
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it. -- Judith Guest
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. -- James Lasdun
I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me. -- Miranda July
Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features. -- Bill Plympton
Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life and Death. -- Olaotan Fawehinmi
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story. -- Julia Child
The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing. -- Francis Chan
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. -- Meg Rosoff
I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.' -- Selma Blair
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. -- Jennifer Egan
If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection. -- Thomas Jefferson
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. -- David Sedaris
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no. -- Cheryl Strayed
There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters. -- Iggy Azalea
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know? -- Sarah Dessen
My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom. -- Miley Cyrus
Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do. -- Travis J. Dahnke
If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with. -- Venus Williams
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me. -- Susan Orlean
I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. -- Jeff Bezos
As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you can't dance in a long dress. -- Tina Turner
I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me. -- Ian Watson

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