And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.
Rick Moranis
ThinkShortWorryUnfairAudience
I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there.
Charles H. Townes
ScienceWavesShortDoingDownDone
If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
Victoria Beckham
PracticeFakeShortWalkingYouBig
We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.
Tommy Ramone
TimePeopleShortPlayWhoSongs
Cut your arms and legs off, and you're left with a trunk, which you need to be as strong as possible. It's easier to push over someone who is tall and skinny than someone short and stocky. That's why we work everything from the calves to the neck.
Anthony Joshua
WorkStrongShortPushSomeoneYou
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
Herbert Read
LifeShortIndividualMechanicalHis
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
Margaret of Valois
LoveWomanShortChooseMatterOut
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
Meg Rosoff
LifeMindMeSisterWritingShort
Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
H. P. Lovecraft
PerfectionStoryShortAlmostTales
I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.
Jon Stewart
RideShortYouTalkOverLate-Night
Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.
Ringo Starr
LifeShortMy LifeOverYearsUp
The issue of work/life balance is a real one, and yet I still find myself frustrated if I feel like I'm giving some aspect of my life short shrift.
Channing Dungey
LifeMyselfBalanceShortMy Life
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
Tamora Pierce
WritingControlThinkingShortYou
In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to 'The Avengers,' I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline.
Tom Hiddleston
TimeMeHairShortEnoughLook
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.
Anne Fadiman
ImaginationCollegeMeShortWant
You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.
Hillary Clinton
LifeGoalsShortYouPersonLiving
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
Manuel Puig
StoryProblemsShortComplicated
I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.
Mehmet Oz
MorningTimeShortYouKnowWant
I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.
Gary Coleman
MedicalMeBlackShortIntelligent
Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc.
Johnny Iuzzini
ChangeSimpleMeHairBeardShort
As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.
Nobuo Uematsu
MusicTimeSimpleMindShortYou
Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking reading.
Celeste Ng
SonMeReadingShortCruelLiking
The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
Victor Garber
CharacterMeThoughtShortLaugh
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost
MeWorldStoryShortStoneReady
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