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Short Quotes

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit Picture Quote #1

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books Picture Quote #1

I was such a tomboy. I had absolutely no bosom, and I wore my hair really short - shaved, like a boy Picture Quote #1

On my honor - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout’s Oath Picture Quote #1

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn’t know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery Picture Quote #1

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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they’re too short. That’s because today’s inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000 Picture Quote #1

You have to have short fingernails or they’d just break off, and you can’t wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding Picture Quote #1

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart Picture Quote #1

When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast Picture Quote #1

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man’s relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition Picture Quote #1

When you don’t feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life’s too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it’ll show Picture Quote #1

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Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floorA brief life seems pointless.Tristan thought for a momentIsn’t that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift? Picture Quote #1

Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. A brief life seems pointless.Tristan thought for a moment. Isn’t that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift? Picture Quote #1

The medium’s gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short Picture Quote #1

For me it’s a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe Picture Quote #1

Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice Picture Quote #1

I love dressing up. As kids, my friends and I would dress up as the Spice Girls - Posh Spice was my favourite because I had short brown hair like her Picture Quote #1

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In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be Picture Quote #1

There aren’t a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don’t need anything else Picture Quote #1

I don’t like just traveling in for a short time. I’ve done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and if you’re working for them, they want something by a certain time Picture Quote #1

When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it’s footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it’s the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman Picture Quote #1

Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don’t really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they’d be like, ‘Go get that guy Gubler. He’ll be in your student film.’ I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films Picture Quote #1

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time Picture Quote #1

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If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties Picture Quote #1

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast Picture Quote #1

In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn’t fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke Picture Quote #1

I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business Picture Quote #1

In the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter’s, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume Picture Quote #1

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it Picture Quote #1

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This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit (Short Quotes) I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. (Short Quotes) I was such a tomboy. I had absolutely no bosom, and I wore my hair really short - shaved, like a boy. (Short Quotes) On my honor - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout’s Oath. (Short Quotes) I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn’t know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery. (Short Quotes) Short stories, for me, it’s like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it. (Short Quotes) Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they’re too short. That’s because today’s inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000. (Short Quotes) You have to have short fingernails or they’d just break off, and you can’t wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding. (Short Quotes) A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. (Short Quotes) When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast. (Short Quotes) Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man’s relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition. (Short Quotes) When you don’t feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life’s too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it’ll show. (Short Quotes) Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floorA brief life seems pointless.Tristan thought for a momentIsn’t that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift? (Short Quotes) Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. A brief life seems pointless.Tristan thought for a moment. Isn’t that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift? (Short Quotes) The medium’s gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short. (Short Quotes) For me it’s a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe. (Short Quotes) Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice. (Short Quotes) I love dressing up. As kids, my friends and I would dress up as the Spice Girls - Posh Spice was my favourite because I had short brown hair like her. (Short Quotes) In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be. (Short Quotes) There aren’t a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don’t need anything else. (Short Quotes) I don’t like just traveling in for a short time. I’ve done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and if you’re working for them, they want something by a certain time. (Short Quotes) When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it’s footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it’s the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman. (Short Quotes) Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don’t really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they’d be like, ‘Go get that guy Gubler. He’ll be in your student film.’ I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films. (Short Quotes) But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time. (Short Quotes) If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties. (Short Quotes) Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast. (Short Quotes) In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn’t fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke. (Short Quotes) I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. (Short Quotes) In the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter’s, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume. (Short Quotes) Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it. (Short Quotes)

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