Length Quotes - Page 19

• Let us bear our cross and leave it to God to determine the length and the weight.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Weight, Bears, Crosses

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• You have to have all these elements of a feature but with a third of the length. And also the development process - there are so many more steps in getting notes from the studio, getting notes from the network.

  John Francis Daley

  Elements, Development, Steps

  Source: collider.com

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• If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me.

  David G. McAfee

  Gone, Want, Facts

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Oct 15, 2012

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• I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters.

  Jackie Gleason

  Character, Personality, Television

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• No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.

  Mary Cholmondeley

  Running, Long, Once In A Lifetime

  Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Red Pottage”, p.142, Mary Cholmondeley

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• He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence.

  Nathaniel Chapman

  Fighting, Fate, Successful

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• The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Race, Sixty Minutes, Perfect

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• The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full length. Then the fast boat won the second piece. And so it went for the next four pieces, back and forth. Conclusion: I hate seat racing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hate, Racing, Three

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• I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.

  Jack Kirby

  Knowing, Life And Death, Done

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

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• I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

  Brian May

  Queens, Thinking, Band

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• If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Disappointing, Great Things

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Point Break, Trying

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• In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Yield, Civilization

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

  George Carlin

  Weekend, Amusement, Sometimes

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Right before I'm about to talk at length about something I like I say, Get me started.

  Demetri Martin

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2012

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• Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

  Ray Romano

  Running, Brother, Mirrors

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”, Bantam

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• I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

  W. Earl Brown

  Hero, Arms, Too Much

  Source: collider.com

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• The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's always pressure that you make the right choice for the next film. You don't know what the outcome is gonna be, there's always potential to find length to your career as well. Now I'm so far from any other job skills that if I don't make movies.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Jobs, Thinking, Skills

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• If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie

  Character, Fiction, Association

  Alfred Bertram Guthrie (1993). “The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography”, p.177, U of Nebraska Press

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• The sari's radiance, vigor and variety, produced by a single straight length of cloth, should give us in the West pause and make us think twice about the zipper, the dart and the shoulder pad.

  Naveen Patnaik

  Thinking, Zippers, Giving

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• It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

  Arthur Rothstein

  Reality, Lenses, Add

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• I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.

  Debra Dean

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

  Gail Zappa

  Writing, Pieces, Singles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

  Neil Simon

  Book, Writing, Firsts

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Maybe if I'd gone in younger, I wouldn't have had that feeling, but I've seen an enormous amount of changes since the early-'70s in how this stuff is shot. I did the first TV movie ever shot in 18 days; before this film the normal length of shooting a TV movie was between 21 and 26 days. We shot a full-up, two-hour TV movie in 18 days with Donald Sutherland playing the lead, who had never worked on television before.

  Richard Masur

  Two, Feelings, Gone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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