At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks.
Sascha Radetsky
TeacherManHairShortReachWhite
Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
John Burroughs
NatureGoodMountainShortSheep
I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.
Jack W. Szostak
WorkTimeStruggleMeThoughtShort
The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.
Lowell Thomas
ManSpeakShortHimAbilityHead
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.
Seth Grahame-Smith
LibraryShortLiteratureWorthGot
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
Elizabeth Edwards
ShoesPeopleStoryShortYouKnow
I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
Daniel Woodrell
BookThinkingShortDoingYouWant
If you arrive at a concert ready to play your piece, that's not nearly good enough. You must have your music ready to the point where you can play it on a short rehearsal, after a long plane flight, on a strange piano, having had an unpleasant lunch, in an unfriendly atmosphere. You have to be so over-prepared that you can cope with anything.
Stephen Hough
GoodMusicLunchShortEnoughYou
My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
Bonnie Hunt
WisdomGreatTimeManShortHere
The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a tightrope walk - every sentence is a step along the rope, and you can so easily misplace your step and break your neck.
Kevin Barry
WalkStepStoryThinkShortYou
All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.
Sandra Oh
WorkShortCareerCanadaStudent
Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
Johannes Tauler
GodManVoiceShortLearnListen
I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
Jackie Chan
LifeActionShortMy LifeCareer
To be honest, I chose romance because writing a book seemed so dauntingly long. I looked around for something short, discovered Harlequin romances, and decided to read a few to see if I could do it.
Lori Wilde
WritingBookShortLongSeeRomance
I'm short and to the point.
Shaquille O'Neal
ShortPoint
I was always bit of a jock.
Duncan Jones
WorkShortCameraMoreOldShooting
The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
Eleanor Clift
WomenShortPartyTicketBothList
It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is.
Stefan Karl Stefansson
LifeShortDieYouTellGoing
I like people to have a bit of a laugh. Life is too short to not enjoy what you're doing.
Bradley Walsh
LifePeopleLife Is Too ShortShort
I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.
Jamie Lee Curtis
CuteHairHaircutThinkShortOnly
I love film, and I love short films.
Sarah Gadon
LoveShortFilmShort FilmsI Love
What Adam McKay did with illuminating the financial crisis in 'The Big Short,' he's now doing with the media in 'Succession.'
Jeremy Strong
FinancialShortDoingMediaCrisis
In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
Jack Davenport
TimePeopleShortYouPilotNeed
Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material.
Lizz Winstead
ShortPresidentGoingMaterial
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