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Whatever advice you give, be short.
Horace
You
Advice
Whatever
Give
Short
We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.
Howard Schultz
Age
Live
Everything
Term
Short
Where
Short-Term
Based
My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.
Hugh Grant
Attention Span
Laziness
Add
Almost
Attention
Feels
Chemical
Got
Short
Short Attention Span
Where
Span
Interested
Really
Now
Profound
A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.
Hulk Hogan
Time
Me
People
Frame
Carpet
Out
Bad
Got
Time Frame
Lot
Short
Being
Short Time
Place
Realize
Pulled
When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.
Iain De Caestecker
Me
Looking
Looking Back
Stupid
Films
Back
Brother
Horrible
Silly
Direct
He
Make
Got
Were
Camera
Short
Short Films
Which
Video
Video Camera
Younger
Act
Used
Now
I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
Ian Anderson
Buy
Music
People
Loan
Think
Once
Drawer
Plug
Rather
Tend
Individual
Never
Disappear
Attention
Attention Spans
Tracks
Friend
iTunes
Than
Listen
Short
Again
Spans
Them
Then
Really
Whole
Download
Watch
Album
The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
Ian Mckellen
Great
You
Macbeth
Out
Easy
Exciting
Most
Likely
Practical
Attracts
Understand
Audiences
Sell
Very
Mount
Short
Just
Want
Theater
Explanation
Production
Acting
Popular
Play
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
Ian Rankin
Competition
First
Out
Wrote
Another
Came
Up
Won
Prize
Short
Short Story
Story
Newspaper
Radio
Published
Second
Punk gave you a kind of chutzpah, so even trying to be a writer, I just thought, 'Well, I'm going to send poems to 'Radio Times,' short stories to the 'Observer,' just have a go.
Ian Rankin
You
Thought
Punk
Gave
Kind
Poems
Writer
Observer
Well
Go
Times
Trying
Send
Going
Short
Just
Stories
Short Stories
Radio
Even
I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
Ian Watson
Life
Funny
Me
Old
Pain
Too
Over
Removal
Go
Get
Going
Short
Just
Plaster
Technique
Before 'Dancing with the Stars,' I'd directed a short called 'Man vs. Monday' that I sent out to all the festivals just to show I can direct and produce. It was also a template to launch a movie or a TV series.
Ian Ziering
Man
Before
Monday
Stars
Dancing
Dancing With The Stars
Out
TV
Launch
TV Series
Direct
Directed
Also
Festivals
Short
Just
Movie
Sent
Produce
Show
Series
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida
Sad
Democracy
History
Experience
Nothing
Lasting
Our
Short
Informed
Require
Foundation
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
Immanuel Velikovsky
Buy
Enthusiasm
Poverty
Lost
Research
Difficult
Mine
Pen
Pencils
Given
Could
Almost
Devotion
Provoked
Short
Used
Describe
Lived
Nickel
Fountain
Fountain Pen
Two
Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything - apart from Imogen Poots.
Imogen Poots
Life
My Life
Name
Been
Short
Anything
Unfortunately
Apart
Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
Ira Sachs
Music
Cinema
Edge
Understanding
Few
Market
Distributor
Both
Sophisticated
Box
Proven
Years
Itself
Short
Cutting
Cutting Edge
Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
Ireland Baldwin
Life
You
Have Fun
Too
Wear
Short
Fun
I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
Irina Shayk
Love
Me
Age
People
Care
High
High Heels
Wearing
About
Classmates
Like
She
Make
Opinions
dont Care
Same
Short
Just
Wore
Heels
Then
Used
Skinny
Skirts
Fun
Now
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
Irwin Shaw
Great
Nothing
Market
Out
Magazines
Almost
Almost Nothing
Were
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Unfortunately
Many
Published
Early
Started
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
Irwin Shaw
Time
You
Writing
Young
Enough
Apprenticeship
Kind
Marvelous
Period
Any
Short
Short Period
Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
Isaac Hanson
Life
Death
Reality
Incredibly
Always
Short
I grew up partially in Switzerland but mostly in Australia. I lived in Kakadu for a short time - it's an Aboriginal community. My best friend growing up was Aboriginal. She taught me so much.
Isabel Lucas
Time
Best
Me
Community
Best Friend
Aboriginal
She
Mostly
Friend
Up
Australia
Short
Taught
Grew
Short Time
Much
Growing
Lived
Growing Up
Switzerland
I write short stories. I write every day.
Isaiah Mustafa
Day
Every Day
Every
Write
Short
Stories
Short Stories
My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a working mum. But I found it very hard to be away from my family, even for short periods of time.
Isla Fisher
Time
Family
Mother
Easy
Find
Periods
Impression
Up
Very
Short
Short Periods
Worked
Working
Hard
Even
Growing
Growing Up
Found
Mum
Away
I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.
Isobelle Carmody
Book
First
Year
Older
Had
Category
Also
Wrote
Readers
Accepted
Australia
Listed
Short
Children
Sent
Full
Published
Publisher
Fourteen
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.
Italo Calvino
Energy
Books
Rules
Memoirs
Rate
More
Write
Open
Had
Without
Genuine
How
How Much
Testimonial
Been
Provide
Italy
Trying
Any
Preconceived
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Might
Modest
Notes
Plan
Us
Much
Useful
Less
Novel
Wasted
Things
Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.
Jacinda Ardern
Politics
Job
Everyone
Worst
Knows
Accepted
Short
Just
Notice
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