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I made a lot of short films before making a feature film. Actually, I learnt film-making by making short films.
My father has been a part of a few short films I made; he played a small but significant role in 'Jigarthanda.'
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
I was 17 when I wrote a collection of short stories and wanted it published but it didn't happen. A lot of publishing houses don't allow young authors to enter into writing segments.
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.
When you're working on a television series, you only get a very short off-season. The scheduling of TV is relentless.
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
Word can spread quickly around the international circuit if a player is perceived to have a fault, particularly if it is against short bowling.
Although 'Mockingjay 2' grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations.
Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.
TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.
I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
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.
'Flip' is an anthology of four short films, and I am in the one called 'Massage,' along with Sandeepa Dhar and Viraj Patel.
I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.
You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.
'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.
Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.
Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.
A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed star, but should preferably also have a kind of elegant simplicity.
I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.
In my short acting career, I've been in incredible relationships with incredible women.
I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.
My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.
My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.
I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.
I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I did a short film with Donald Glover for one of his Childish Gambino projects, and Flying Lotus was an actor in it.
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.'
While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.
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