Length Quotes - Page 19

• Right before I'm about to talk at length about something I like I say, Get me started.

  Demetri Martin

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2012

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• Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

  Ray Romano

  Running, Brother, Mirrors

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”, Bantam

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• I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

  W. Earl Brown

  Hero, Arms, Too Much

  Source: collider.com

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• Because I've never made this kind of movie before, so I've never even been to Comic-Con. And Hugh and Evangeline keep telling me, 'Oh, my god... This is such Comic-Con fodder. We're going to have such a fun summer!' Is this the kind of thing they show? That length?

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Summer, Fun, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm not sure that the songs help me figure anything out so much as they're a distillation of the original question.

  J Tillman

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's always pressure that you make the right choice for the next film. You don't know what the outcome is gonna be, there's always potential to find length to your career as well. Now I'm so far from any other job skills that if I don't make movies.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Jobs, Thinking, Skills

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• If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie

  Character, Fiction, Association

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie (1993). “The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography”, p.177, U of Nebraska Press

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• The sari's radiance, vigor and variety, produced by a single straight length of cloth, should give us in the West pause and make us think twice about the zipper, the dart and the shoulder pad.

  Naveen Patnaik

  Thinking, Zippers, Giving

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• It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

  Arthur Rothstein

  Reality, Lenses, Add

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• The ACLU is an organization with a long and distinguished history of fighting to protect freedom of speech. On the other hand, in recent years, it has carried its mandate to ever more eccentric and often highly destructive lengths. While is may have been perfectly honorable for Dukakis to belong to the ACLU, it was equally legitimate for Bush to attack him for it. And with what enormous relish he did the job!

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Fighting, Hands

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• In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.

  Dallas Willard

  Essentials, Denial, World

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• I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.

  Debra Dean

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

  Gail Zappa

  Writing, Pieces, Singles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

  Neil Simon

  Book, Writing, Firsts

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Maybe if I'd gone in younger, I wouldn't have had that feeling, but I've seen an enormous amount of changes since the early-'70s in how this stuff is shot. I did the first TV movie ever shot in 18 days; before this film the normal length of shooting a TV movie was between 21 and 26 days. We shot a full-up, two-hour TV movie in 18 days with Donald Sutherland playing the lead, who had never worked on television before.

  Richard Masur

  Two, Feelings, Gone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the best thing about music is that someone could be writing a song that's so personal, and it tells so many other people's story at the same time. It kind of exemplifies that we are all kind of on the same wave[length] - it's amazing how comforting somebody else's story can be, because we have experienced their story in some way or another, and I can totally relate, and I get to feel that feeling and the expression of that emotion. I get to feel like as a listener, that somebody understands me, which is pretty incredible.

  Theresa Wayman

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I love the mid-length skirt. That's really appropriate, you can wear that in many different day occasions.

  Olivia Palermo

  Skirts, Different, Appropriate

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It ends a 40-year ban on exporting U.S. oil. It's changed - it's included in its cyber-security legislation - that says to private companies, hey, if you share with us your data on your cyber-attacks, your potential cyber-attacks, we'll give you liability protection. And they authorized a health care program for 9/11 responders for 75 years to cover the length of their lifespans.

  Susan Davis

  Oil, Cyber Attacks, Years

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". Interview with Robert Siegel, wuwm.com. December 21, 2015.

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• Yeah, in every film that I've been lucky enough to do with Tim, there's always some form of torture, and the nails were Tim's idea. They were the length of the fingers and stuff, but it was okay because I had a troop of people who would help me go to the bathroom. They had to have treatment afterwards but they're okay now. That is true.

  Johnny Depp

  Ideas, People, Nails

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• The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.

  Edward M. Lerner

  Writing, Scope, Determine

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is.

  Torae

  Couple, Records

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• The difference between the big budget films I've done is the length of time. But in terms of the day-to-day, you're still going on to set, you're getting into character, and you're going and doing your job, so there's absolutely no difference. It's just the structure around it and the length of time. But in terms of budget and money, it doesn't really manifest itself.

  Andy Serkis

  Jobs, Character, Differences

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.

  Sue Tompkins

  Thinking, Long, Endure

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let me tell you something, last night in the debate, during one of the breaks, two of the breaks, Donald Trump went backstage... He asked for a full length mirror. I don't know why because the podium goes up to here. He wanted a full length mirror. Maybe to make sure his pants weren't wet. I don't know.

  Marco Rubio

  Night, Mirrors, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

  Nicholas Royle

  Ideas, Encounters, Fiction

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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