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I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
Sean Durkin
Photography
Writing
Kid
Also
Short
Fiction
Really
I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'
Selma Blair
Time
Me
Eyes
People
Beauty
Brunette
Casting
Short
Hard
Hard Time
Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity.
Sendhil Mullainathan
Time
Memory
Mistake
People
Control
Busy
Every
Assume
Resource
Resources
Scarce
Only
Also
Executive
Make
Call
Course
Bandwidth
Same
Short
Psychologists
Which
Mean
Them
Working
Use
Activity
Nearly
Basic
Cognitive
Sports life is very short.
Sergei Bubka
Life
Sports
Very
Short
When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected mostly young gay men - it was actually called GRID for a short period of time: Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Syndrome - and people thought it actually might be recreational drugs or other types of toxins.
Seth Berkley
Time
Gay
You
People
Remember
Thought
Men
First
Young
Other
AIDS
Types
Syndrome
Recreational
Know
Period
Mostly
Affected
Short
Short Period
Grid
Might
Appeared
Actually
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Library
Worth
Congress
Guess
Abandoned
Unpublished
Wrote
Terrible
Another
Got
Were
Decade
Gradually
Short
Screenplays
Stories
After
Short Stories
Literature
Little
Less
Manuscript
Many
Novels
Awful
In my short time in Congress, I've learned it's a lot easier to find a reason to vote against something than to vote it.
Seth Moulton
Time
Vote
Congress
Easier
Find
Something
Learned
Lot
Than
Short
Short Time
Against
Reason
Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy shared more than just being leaders during critical times and the misfortune of lives cut short. They shared a power of will to drive the nation, sometimes single-handedly, toward a destination that few but they realized was attainable.
Seth Moulton
Destination
Sometimes
Will
Drive
Power
Nation
Few
Presidents
Critical
More
Attainable
Misfortune
Shared
Leaders
Toward
Lincoln
Single-Handedly
Times
Than
Short
Just
Being
Cut
Realized
Lives
Kennedy
I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.
Shah Rukh Khan
Better
Stress
Believe
Out
Plus
Schedule
Short
Personally
Shot
Turns
Film
Actor
My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
Shane Warne
Problem
Fear
Scared
Fingers
Only
Struggling
Ball
Am
Go
Opposition
Up
Pitching
Short
Just
Might
Swinging
Keep
Now
Why
Away
Until the '90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was 'too black, too fat, too short, and too old.' Told me to go and bleach my skin. Told me to step in the background and just stay back. I had the voice, but I didn't have the looks.
Sharon Jones
Me
Old
Black
Looking
Skin
Too
Back
Background
Stay
Guy
Voice
Had
Step
Sony
Major
Look
Until
Looks
Go
Were
Labels
Short
Just
Certain
Fat
I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So, I am the fastest cook in the world.
Sharon Stone
World
College
Pool
Hall
Am
Short
Order
Cook
Fastest
I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
Shaun Cassidy
Life
Teen
Teen Idol
Shelf
Shelf Life
Idol
Short
It was better to be known as the kid who could draw than as the short kid.
Shaun Tan
Better
Draw
Kid
Could
Known
Than
Short
Who
Believe me, I go and go, 'cause I know how short life is, and I know how very blessed all of us are to be here and how very short it is.
Shawn Crahan
Life
Me
Cause
Blessed
Believe
Know
How
Go
Very
Short
Short Life
Us
Here
For training, you know what works and what doesn't work. And you know where you fall short and you need to pick up, so I'm not worried about the age factor.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Work
You
Age
Training
Fall
Worried
About
Factor
Pick
Know
Up
Short
Where
Works
Need
I hate when they portray women as just sex symbols in short skirts, running around playing dumb. I refuse to watch such films or be in such films.
Shenaz Treasury
Women
Hate
Sex
Films
Running
Around
Dumb
Short
Just
Refuse
Skirts
Watch
Portray
Playing
Symbols
White Americans have a short memory.
Sherman Alexie
Memory
White
American
Short
Short Memory
I guess for every government - for many governments, they only have short vision, they only have three-year term or a four-year term. So they have to make sure they get enough support from the voter. So they probably have to deal with more short-term issues which are related to being re-elected.
Shi Zhengrong
Government
Vision
Every
Enough
Related
Guess
Three-Year
More
Only
Support
Re-Elected
Term
Voter
Make
Sure
Deal
Issues
Governments
Get
Short
Being
Which
Short-Term
Many
Four-Year
My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.
Shiloh Walker
Attention Span
Writing
Simple
Secret
Attention
Lots
Very
Short
Short Attention Span
Span
Fast
Things
I didn't plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going.
Shimon Peres
Me
Old
Country
Year
Politician
Our
One Or Two
David
Supposed
Underground
Arms
Am
Were
Years
Going
Short
Plan
Manpower
Keep
Keep Going
Serve
Founder
Two
Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.
Silvan Shalom
Time
Important
Only
Very
Short
Short Time
Last
I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.
Simon Callow
Wonderful
Sometimes
Lonely
Own
Out
Bored
About
Never
Feel
Am
Lot
Get
Quite
Short
Just
Gregarious
Anything
Your
Even
Ever
I don't think an alien will be a blob. If aliens are out there they should have evolved just like us. They should have eyes and be walking on two legs. In short if there is any life out there then it is likely to be very similar to us.
Simon Conway Morris
Life
Eyes
Alien
Will
Think
Out
Evolved
Similar
Like
Likely
Very
Walking
Any
Short
Just
Legs
Then
Us
Should
Two
My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.
Simon Hoggart
Book
World
Try
First
Saving
Unlikely
Topic
Colleague
Brown
He
Written
Economist
Gordon
Very
Short
Bill
I try not to write jokes that are mean. I try my best to write jokes that are pretty universal and jokes that don't attack anyone. I know I often fall short of that and end up taking unfair swipes at people, but I try not to.
Simon Rich
Best
Jokes
People
Try
Fall
Unfair
Pretty
Attack
Write
Taking
Know
End
Up
Often
Short
Anyone
Mean
Universal
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