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A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

Success Thinking Short Comedy You

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

A. Philip Randolph

Power Football Control Short Award

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

Deborah Eisenberg

Art Short You Fiction Interested

My mom is really tough.

Life Opportunities Short You Career

In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.

American Short Run Way Improve Who

Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Story Short Media You Storytelling

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Romantic Short You Will Anything

I have had unattractive heroes - broken noses, scars, crooked teeth. You want to give them something that is human. My heroines struggle with being too short or fat or old. Some are older than the heroes. You try to cover all spectrums.

Struggle Broken Short Fat You Scars

Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course - when your score is really on the line - is another story.

Good Practice Game Story Golf Short

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

Helena Bonham Carter

Sad Bride Short Way She Her

I'm in heels more than flats, but when I wear very short dresses, I like small heels.

Small Short Dresses More Heels Wear

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

Character Basketball Think Short Off

After my first fashion week, there were so many brands approaching us, and we said 'No' 90 per cent of the time. We didn't care about making a lot of money - it seemed so short term. We've always wanted to create something bigger.

Chiara Ferragni

Time Money Fashion Care Short Week

I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all the things I wanted to do if I had several lifetimes to do them in.

Life Life Is Short Short Feel Know

Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.

Sad Cold Think Short Genius New

It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn't block out the other.

Ottmar Hitzfeld

Short Long Important Coach Out

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

Parents Short Go Street Abroad Were

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

Age Old Age Youth Short Long Old

Being short works for me.

Me Short Being Works

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

Writing Short You Find Boring Write

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

Discipline Eating Hell Short You

Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

Today Power Short Year Easy Break

I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.

Christopher Lee

Character People Short Remember Play

The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano player and I went into a studio... and we put down some demos... Those demos got to Quincy Jones through an agent... He listened to them, he called me, and we started to record.

Truth Day New York Me Story Short

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