Length Quotes - Page 15

• I can make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them come out worse. But I've been very lucky over the years to be able to sustain the length of career that I've had.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Careers, Lucky

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• I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Thinking, Museums

  "Oral history interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Martha Kingsbury, www.aaa.si.edu. March 3, 1984.

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• I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Art, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Always take one last look in a full-length mirror before leaving the house.

  Karen Walker

  Mirrors, House, Leaving

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• After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.

  Hugh Hefner

  War, College, Illinois

  "Interview With Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.

  Richard Bach

  Mistake, Blessing, Practice

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.

  Ben Horowitz

  Years, Management, Bigs

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• Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

  Kiki Dimoula

  Long, Titles, Essentials

  Source: blog.yupnet.org

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• I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.

  Matthew Carter

  Curious, Persons, Knows

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources and outlast their customers and go belly-up. And that's why these huge companies have massive layoffs all the time.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Growth, Resources

  "The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia". Interview with Jacob Gordon, www.treehugger.com. February 7, 2008.

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• I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

  Henry Rollins

  Skills, Ideas, Stories

  Source: paulsemel.com

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• The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices.

  John Quincy Adams

  Freedom, Children, Men

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• Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

  Thomas Hardy

  Experience, Measurement, Intensity

  Thomas Hardy (1873). “A Pair of Blue Eyes”, p.273

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• It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Sitting Still, Reactions

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1968). “Nabokov's congeries”

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• The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence.

  Paul Johnson

  Book, Writing, Perfect

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• I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

  Lord Byron

  Moon, Air, Sea

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• If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

  Daniel Webster

  Land, Darkness, Degradation

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• The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

  Ptolemy

  Leadership, Length Of Life, Events

  Ptolemy, Frank Egleston Robbins (1940). “Tetrabiblos”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.

  Craig Thompson

  Song, Confused, Spring

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• In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Gone, States

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• Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat racing is speed not margin. Boat X beats boat Y by two lengths over 1000 meters in a time of 2:54. After exchanging "Dave" from X to Y for "Scott," Boat X beats boat Y by one length in a time of 2:51. From the rower's perspective, the result is that Dave beats Scott by a length. But in Mike's eyes, Scott beats Dave because on the second piece, X was three seconds faster-even though it only beat Y by a length.

  Chris Ahrens

  Eye, Two, Perspective

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• I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

  John Byrne

  People, Way, Defeat

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• I am lucky in that I love what I do, but it can still be hard to be away from the kids for long lengths of time. At the end of the day, all I want is to be with my kids, but it's worth it to create a future for my family.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Kids, Long, The End Of The Day

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• I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.

  James Thurber

  Distance, Ocean, Night

  James Thurber, Marc Simont (1998). “Many Moons”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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