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They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

Short Say They Say Happen Anything

You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

Best Animal City Short You Jungle

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

Short Want Matter Ask Pretend Guy

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

Me Writing Fly Short Long Attention

I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

Franz Beckenbauer

Day Key Short Long Information

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

Children Short Fiction Stories Quite

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

Michael Bloomberg

Confidence New York Short Remember

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

E. F. Schumacher

Life Attitude World Short Wealth

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.

Christopher Alexander

World Short Same Size Patterns Only

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

Step Child Short Belief Satisfy Our

I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.

Short Powerful Now Complex Big May

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.

Together Simple Short Intention Way

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Constitution Short Obscure Should

The list of fun and easily-fixed brain diseases is very short.

Fun Brain Short Diseases Very List

In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.

American Short Without Been Hunt

To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.

Life Surprise Famous Short Person

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

Francisco de Quevedo

Short Things Seem Only Even

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.

Sick Voice Smoking Short Career Cut

Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.

Performance Short Media Done Say

I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.

Life Leader Job Short You Play

Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.

Best Sun Book Story Short Rejection

The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.

Theodor Mommsen

Time Short New Taxes Rule Above

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

Hair World Short Trying You Know

I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.

Story Short Now Sometimes Teach

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