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We found the appetite for 'Frontline' has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we're doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we're still producing these remarkable long-form films.
- Raney Aronson-Rath
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Short form media is reductionist by nature.
- Jon Krakauer
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The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
- Margaret Spellings
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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
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The whole object of the players' association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career.
- Gordon Taylor
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
- Rachel Zoe
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Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.
- Roscoe Mitchell
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For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.
- Daniel Berehulak
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The window in which it's acceptable to listen to Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 record 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas' is short, so I keep it in heavy rotation throughout the festive season.
- Sally Rooney
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Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.
- Michael A. Stackpole
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I would never date a guy with short hair.
- Margaret Hoover
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Some people draw a line between music videos and short films, looking down on music videos as a format, but there's so much potential in music videos.
- Hiro Murai
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We can detect very small differences in telomere length, and it is a very simple and fast technique where many samples can be analysed at the same time. Most importantly, we are able to determine the presence of dangerous telomeres - those that are very short.
- María Blasco Marhuenda
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A short telomere represents a persistent and non-repairable damage to the cells, which is able to prevent their division or regeneration.
- María Blasco Marhuenda
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The SCMP, in short, reveals the renewed spirit of Hong Kong driven by my government - connect and excel - and in its passionate commitment to the community.
- Carrie Lam
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I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.
- Gautam Adani
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
- Sarah Bernhardt
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Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.
- John Pearson
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To have an effective striking match, you need gloves on. Junior dos Santos would have a very short career if he was in a bare knuckle fight. The early UFCs, before gloves, were grappling with some striking.
- Frank Mir
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And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.
- Lord Robertson
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
- Bahman Ghobadi
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You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
- Peter Maxwell Davies
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
- Alec Guinness
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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
- Mel Brooks
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I feel like every NBA player puts their life into this game, and for it to be cut short - it hurts, especially when you have so much unfinished business that you feel like you needed to handle.
- John Collins
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I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
- John Gregory Dunne
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Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.
- Alan Cheuse
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The two times I have cut my hair shorter, I've ended up out of work - so short hair is not an option.
- Marie Helvin
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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
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I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.
- Cecily Strong
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You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
- John Barrymore
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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
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I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.
- Fran Drescher
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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
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I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
- Boris Becker
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There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.
- Joel Salatin
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But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.
- George Smathers
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Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?
- Arthur Hugh Clough
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Art is eternal, but life is short.
- Evelyn de Morgan
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I got a couple of stories published, but the kind of money you were making for publishing a short story, I could see I wasn't going to make a living at it.
- Hooman Majd
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Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
- Henry Taylor
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I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.
- Virat Kohli
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Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.
- J. B. Pritzker
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The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
- Graydon Carter
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I'm not a short person; I'm 5'10 and I was wearing heels, and I felt like a tiny little creature next to Shaquille O'Neal.
- Erinn Hayes
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I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.
- H. W. Brands
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.
- Gary Coleman
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I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.
- Max Winkler
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In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.
- Jose Rodriguez
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A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.
- Francis Parkman
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I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen.
- Hilary Mantel
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I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.
- Ann Leckie
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Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.
- Rick Yancey
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Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
- William Empson
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
- Jim Coleman
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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
- Will Self
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'Flip' is an anthology of four short films, and I am in the one called 'Massage,' along with Sandeepa Dhar and Viraj Patel.
- Jim Sarbh
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Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's the best short fiction collection anywhere, just filled with treasures.
- Lucy Alibar
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I want to be able to take fights on short notice.
- Artem Lobov
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Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.
- Nick Turse
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In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
- James Longstreet
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Working as a head coach always seemed to be a bit short term. You lose five games and you're out of a job.
- Daniel Farke
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The emergency care Americans receive can fall short of what they expect and deserve.
- Harvey V. Fineberg
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Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
- F. Gary Gray
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As a captain, I don't have long-term targets in my mind as it is better to go with short targets.
- Sarfaraz Ahmed
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And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.
- Rick Moranis
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My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.
- Shiloh Walker
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I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.
- Bruce Sutter
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Whatever I do, it's crucial to me that I give it 100 per cent. It doesn't matter if it's a short film, stage, theatre, TV or blockbuster. It doesn't matter what level of budget or prestige it is.
- Ewen Bremner
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I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.
- Judith Guest
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A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
- Robert J. Sawyer
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Melvilasam' broke a short, silent phase in my career.
- Suresh Gopi
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I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works, and the term 'graphic novel' has sort of become the codified term now.
- Jim Woodring
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I used to make short films even as a kid. I used to have a camera and play around with it. So, I was always interested in the process and telling stories. I've always wanted to direct.
- Dulquer Salmaan
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You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have been CEO of GE, there have been four CEOs of Toshiba. So there's too short a time to do it, and there's too long a time to do it.
- Jeffrey R. Immelt
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In the early '90s, Too Short was like one of the first dudes who kinda discovered Lil Jon. So I always used to see him at concerts and we'd pow wow - a good dude, you know?
- E-40
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I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls.
- Anna Kendrick
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Life's too short. It's got to be great.
- Hugh Dillon
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I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.
- Dusty Baker
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Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.
- Mark Zupan
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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
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Words fall short sometimes.
- Jeff Bridges
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To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.
- Evan Osnos
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Hemingway's short story 'Hills Like White Elephants' is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway's 'iceberg theory,' which requires that a story find its effectiveness by hiding more than it reveals.
- Amitava Kumar
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Our first short was 'Angry Boy,' which was produced through the Fox Movie Channel.
- Josh Gordon
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I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.
- Meryl Streep
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Stanley Tucci is a classy actor, and Ian Holm is very short but equally classy - and both are also amazing.
- Kayvan Novak
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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
- Joe Haldeman
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Trimming is tricky. If you trim the eyebrow too much, you ruin the arch. Eyebrow hair has a curl and when you brush and cut it, it's easy to snip it too short.
- Anastasia Soare
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I'm very proud of my work at Watford in what has been a short period.
- Brendan Rodgers
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My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
- Meg Rosoff
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At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'
- Laurence Yep
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My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here?
- Koren Zailckas
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Be it web series, short films, reality shows, what drives and keeps me in the groove is my work.
- Suman Ranganathan
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The tennis life is very short, as I say. And my first goal is always to be a good person.
- Juan Martin del Potro
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My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
- Mary of Teck
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I've always looked like I have a sort of bad-boy image as Too Short. People take that for face value. I kind of like that. I like the image. It suits me well.
- Too Short
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Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.
- Ernie Els
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