Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you’ve got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously. – Anne Dudley
I believe that you’re here on Earth for a short time, and while you’re here, you shouldn’t forget it. – Bea Arthur
It’s getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves. – Bob Newhart
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people. – Criss Angel
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn’t know you could make a living that way. – Brit Marling
It’s obvious we can’t all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more. – Alfred Bester
Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it’s a story that’s on a stage, but there’s a different sort of tension that appears on stage – you get to see your characters in a different way – like with lights. – Amy Bloom
Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone. – Andy Serkis
I always think it’s important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you’re going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour’s worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme. – Anne Dudley
If I am training on a holiday, most likely nobody else is – and that gives me the edge. If I’m supposed to run for 20 minutes and I get back and it’s only been 19:34, I’m going to jog in a circle for 26 more seconds. I’m never going to cut it short. – Carli Lloyd
I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful. – Alexandra Paul
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns. – Ben Bernanke
The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms. – Arthur Capper
My new novel ‘Red Hook Road’ began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. – Ayelet Waldman
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
As much as with increased exploration new gas reserves can be found, what must be obvious to all is that our oil and gas reserves are not renewable and they are diminishing, and to protect the generations to come, we must engage in nothing short of a radical shift in the diversification of the economy. – Anthony Carmona
I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed… you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS… a little documentary. – Asif Kapadia
Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel. – Alice Munro
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it. – Christopher Alexander
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
Life’s too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can’t just pedal around and do the same thing forever. – Charlie Trotter
As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn’t have any power, really, as a kid. – Carl Hagelin
In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant. – Chad Hurley
When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, ‘Will you wear it?’ I’d say, ‘Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton’ – that sort of thing. I don’t create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive. – Carine Roitfeld
Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special. – Ariana Grande
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were. – Alice Munro
Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers. – Azim Premji
Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones. – Chuck Palahniuk