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One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have. Allison Mack
Great Attention Span Great Things About Something Attention Short Short Attention Span Being Which Span Actor Serve Things
If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years. Amanda Donohoe
Beautiful You Woman Surgeon Build Young Every Visit Years Going Short Establish Being Want Young Woman Act Plastic Plastic Surgeon Career Two
I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing. Amish Tripathi
Me Strange School Before Nothing Believe Honestly Immortal Absolutely Writer Absolutely Nothing Never Pick Picked Written Know Sounds Short Fiction Wanted Short Story Story Really Even
When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel. Amor Towles
Time Me Memory First Gentleman Lobby Later Giant Visit Visited Restaurant Prompted Some Simply Tourist Glass Hotel Over Moscow First Time Years Off Historic Ceiling Curious Short Wandered Grand Painted Set
I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989. Amor Towles
Age Writing Kid More Paris Since Wrote Been Review Than Short Fiction Stories Short Stories Which Published
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse. Amy Bloom
Every Alice Wilde Fine Writer Also Read Sure Been Austen Dickens Short Influenced Stories Short Stories Jane Paintings Ever Oscar Oscar Wilde Plays
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. Amy Bloom
Great Me Writing Challenge Pleasure Great Pleasure Short Stories Short Stories Fierce Elegant
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise. Amy Bloom
Me You Experience Few Paragraphs Poem Come Surprise Short Breadth Short Story Story Depth Novel Last
The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights. Amy Klobuchar
Freedom Democracy Constitution Vote Survival Rights Depend Other Our Vitality Protects Continue Affords Short Vibrant Us Each Right
I am going to cut my hair very short; I've never done this before... I want to say I had something to do with how I look, not the cancer. Amy Robach
Cancer Hair Before Say Something Never Had Look How Am Very Done Going Short Want Cut
Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban. Anand Gopal
Addition Guns Host Never Taliban Insurgent Proven Fertile Afghanistan Short Ground Groups
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. Anatole France
Life Will Know Another Short Short Life Want Which Eternal
Soap operas are like TV boot camp. You have to be able to self-direct, learn a ton of dialogue in a short amount of time, and deliver a performance in one or two takes. Andrea Navedo
Time You Boot Boot Camp TV One Or Two Able Deliver Takes Performance Like Operas Learn Dialogue Camp Short Soap Soap Operas Amount Ton Two
Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership. Andreas Schleicher
Work Leadership Job Long Pay Despite Summers Characterization Easy Some Cases Fact Long Hours Support Hours Insufficient Off Short Little Successful Teachers Dedicated Teaching Many
Let me tell you this: if Marco Rubio - even though he's only been in the Senate for a very short period of time, that man has a huge, huge opportunity in this country, and I think he could be the president. Andrew Breitbart
Time Me You Man Opportunity Country Think President Though Tell Only Could He Period Been Huge Very Huge Opportunity Senate Short Short Period Even
Life is shockingly short; I don't want to waste that many days. Andrew Ng
Life Days Short Want Many Waste
Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story. Andrew Vachss
Good Op-Ed Blood Times Short Just Screenplay Short Story Story Works
The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There was just something about Martin Short in particular. I really related to him and hung on his every word and mannerism, so I started impersonating all of his characters as an 8th grader. Andy Daly
Word First Live Every Christopher Related Guest Hung Characters About Martin Something Particular Crystal Him His Short Just Just Something Interested Really Billy Season Saturday Saturday Night Saturday Night Live Started Night
I took my pants off in my 'SNL' audition. It was to do a character called Out of Breath Jogger from 1982. I had short shorts on underneath. It eventually aired, so it was worth it! Andy Samberg
Character Worth Breath Took Pants Worth It Out Had Underneath Audition Off SNL Short Shorts Eventually
Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone. Andy Serkis
Life You You Can Do It Everyone Out Magnificent Get Short
I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. Andy Serkis
Films Projects Rings Directing Lord Lord Of The Rings Doing Were Short Short Films Then Started
My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story. Ang Lee
Love First Love Story Possible Cast Could Had Instinct Couple Well Go Go For It Close Short Short Story Story Realized Then Who Function Actor Needed
From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become 'The Hate U Give.' Angie Thomas
Anger Hurt Hate Frustration Become Later Would Give Wrote Short Short Story Story
I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi. Angie Thomas
Hate Conservative School College White Give Mississippi Wrote Mostly Short Short Story Story While
I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts! Ann Cleeves
Seventies Visiting Contacts Since Been Lots Short While Useful Lived Ever
I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that. Ann Leckie
Writing Made First Before Think Had Been Sale Short Fiction
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