Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.
Gemma Arterton
ExperienceShortCareerActingNever
The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.
Andy Richter
SuccessMeNightShortPushLate
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
A. N. Wilson
MotherTimeSpaceMeShortDie
I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
Deborah Eisenberg
ExperienceShortLikeStoriesVery
I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.
Lindsey Vonn
TimeMemoryShortFeelRacingYou
Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
Alex Berenson
ManagementShortElectricityEconomic
Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
Paolo Bacigalupi
WorkGirlStoryShortComplicated
Life is too short for a long story.
Mary Wortley Montagu
LifeLife Is Too ShortStoryShort
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris
ShortLongDoneRunMatterCount
Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.
Ernie Els
FocusShortYouWantLineBall
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
Geoffrey Chaucer
LifeShortLearnLongCrafts
Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
Jean-Claude Van Damme
LifeBestLife Is ShortShortYear
I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
Bebe Rexha
LifeGoodTimeShortEnjoyParty
In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.
David Walton
WorldStartShortAttentionLose
I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.
Kyle Chandler
FootballSchoolHigh SchoolShort
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
Alec Guinness
PersonalityEgoShortAppearance
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
Orson Welles
LiePeopleBelieveThinkShortTrue
There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
Mary J. Blige
LifeTimeLife Is Too ShortShort
Where human lives are concerned, time is always short, yet the world has witnessed the vast resources that governments can draw upon to rescue financial institutions deemed 'too big to fail.'
Pope Benedict XVI
TimeWorldFinancialShortHuman
Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.
Ernest Bramah
RoadShortStepsTakeWhereBends
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.
Italo Calvino
EnergyShortPlanTryingRulesMore
When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
Michael J. Fox
WalkStandShortYouAppleActor
I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.
Eazy-E
MyselfMoneyThinkShortHoodDone
I'm a fan of Otis Redding. I've sat around trying to copy some of his phrasing and learn from him, but it kinda falls short.
Chris Carmack
ShortLearnTryingCopyHimFan
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