Length Quotes - Page 21

• Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renée Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

  Martha Beck

  Encouragement, Worry, Needs

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.

  Mila Kunis

  Book, Thinking, America

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• I'm writinng my first full-length novel, which is based on a novella I wrote called "The Mad Scientist's Daughter." I'm having a wonderful time with it, but of course it's presenting challenges as well. Stories always do, no matter what they are.

  Theodora Goss

  Daughter, Mad, Challenges

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Sônia Braga reacted in a beautiful way to the draft I sent her, so we just made the film ["Aquarius"] as I had written it. Emilie [Lesclaux], my wife and producer, told me, "This is not a two-hour film. This is going to be longer." And I said, "Well, let's try and make it work, whatever length it is."

  Sonia Braga

  Beautiful, Two, Aquarius

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.

  Sonia Braga

  Superhero, Hollywood, Needs

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• People have reacted to the length of "Aquarius" in very positive ways. For example, at the beginning, you have people in a car on the beach at night. One character says, "I'm going to play you this great track." She pushes in a cassette tape, and they listen to about 45 seconds of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." You can actually see the pleasure registering on their faces, but it takes time, and audiences have appreciated that.

  Sonia Braga

  Beach, Queens, Character

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I think that it was a great feeling and probably a little bit more special because of the length of time that had passed before we won, but I think more importantly, it was just a great feeling because this team had such strong leadership and they had great chemistry.

  Pat Summitt

  Strong, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi River.

  William Gurstelle

  Home, Rivers, Office

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• In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Book, School, Eight

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

  Chris Cleave

  War, Distance, Thinking

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test' - Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview with Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.

  Cleve Jones

  Prison, Penalties, States

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's fun to do something different. And there are things you can do in a small palate that you can't necessarily do in a larger role. You can go a little further and do things you could never pull off for any length of time, but you can do for the short run.

  Brent Spiner

  Running, Fun, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The studies I've seen about readability and legibility tend to focus on a specific set of metrics: size, not just the point size, but things like the size of the lower case letters as a proportion of the overall letter height, and line length. People simply can't read really small type set in really long lines.

  Michael Bierut

  Long, People, Focus

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Book, Writing, Creativity

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• There are plenty of meetings, receptions, dinners, and so if you are [at the U.N.] any length of time, and I was there for four and a half years, you formed pretty significant relationships with people from all over the world. And that's important to the work you do. If you're trying to rally the General Assembly to vote for something that matters to the United States, those personal relationships count.

  Susan Rice

  Years, People, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• [Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] it is a big story, which is why there are two more films coming, which will bring the total length of the series to 3 hours.

  Evan Jacobs

  Two, Holy Grail, Stories

  Source: xstuckinthepastx.blogspot.com

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• I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams, because of Allen Ginsberg having lived there. And I went to the Great Falls and sat really in the exact same spot as Adam Driver does as Paterson. And I walked around the factory buildings, and I was rereading - I was reading at the time the epic length poem "Paterson" by Williams.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Fall, Reading, Epic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Just through the process of trying to make the living and the dead feel real, all these little benefits came out. And these benefits turned out to be much more articulate statements of what I really believe. And somehow they were more convincing because they were arrived at at such length.

  George Saunders

  Real, Believe, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm tall for the weight class. I am built to go in and stand in front of the man and trade bombs - why would I do that? I've got length, I've got reach, I've got speed; I've got footwork and defense, but that's not what's going to be the difference in this fight. It's not a tall guy versus a short guy - It's Chris Algieri versus Manny Pacquiao. It's what I bring to the table versus what he brings to the table. I think a lot of it has to do with my mental preparation and mind going into this fight as well as what we know from Manny.

  Chris Algieri

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can be as long as I want them to be.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

  Reid Hoffman

  Running, Years, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You must take care of the body. Body is like a boat. Life is like a river. On this side is the world; on the other side is God. And so, to reach the other side, that is to reach God, you must maintain this boat carefully. You can keep the boat for any length of time in the water; there is no danger. But if the water comes into the boat, then there is danger.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Rivers, Water, Life Is Like

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• Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually letting the poem settle into what I think is its own best form.

  Allison Joseph

  Thinking, Play, Lines

  Source: atticusreview.org

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• There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Children, Order, Protect

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

  David Attenborough

  Animal, Watches, Generations

  "The Trials of Life". Documentary series, 1990.

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