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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.

Quotes by Karthik Subbaraj

While working in Bangalore, I was making short films.

Quotes by Karthik Subbaraj

My father has been a part of a few short films I made; he played a small but significant role in 'Jigarthanda.'

Quotes by Karthik Subbaraj

I did a lot of short films before doing feature films.

Quotes by Karthik Subbaraj

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Quotes by Karl Kraus

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.

Quotes by Kanika Dhillon

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

Quotes by K. A. Applegate

My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.

Quotes by Justin Baldoni

What's the point of shorts if they're not short?

Quotes by Juergen Teller

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Quotes by Jules Feiffer

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

Quotes by Judith Guest

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.

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

When you're working on a television series, you only get a very short off-season. The scheduling of TV is relentless.

Quotes by Joshua Jackson

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.

Quotes by Jose Saramago

Word can spread quickly around the international circuit if a player is perceived to have a fault, particularly if it is against short bowling.

Quotes by Jonathan Agnew

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Quotes by Jon Krakauer

Although 'Mockingjay 2' grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations.

Quotes by Jon Feltheimer

You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?

Quotes by Johnny Knoxville

Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.

Quotes by John Walters

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

Quotes by John Stockwell

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Quotes by John Sladek

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.

Quotes by John Spratt

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.

Quotes by John Polson

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

Quotes by John McCarthy

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.

Quotes by John Gregory Dunne

The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

Quotes by John Gutfreund

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Quotes by John Drinkwater

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton

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!

Quotes by John C. McGinley

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

Quotes by John Barton

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.

Quotes by John Bercow

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.

Quotes by Joel Salatin

I do just as much world-building in a short story as I do for a novel.

Quotes by Jody Lynn Nye

'Flip' is an anthology of four short films, and I am in the one called 'Massage,' along with Sandeepa Dhar and Viraj Patel.

Quotes by Jim Sarbh

Short term memory is not good.

Quotes by Jim McMahon

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

Quotes by Jim Harrison

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

Quotes by Jim Coleman

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

Quotes by Jill McCorkle

You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.

Quotes by Jessica Szohr

'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.

Quotes by Jessica Clark

Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.

Quotes by Jesse Kellerman

Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

Quotes by Jerome Powell

Long story short: E. L. James is a hero.

Quotes by Jenny Mollen

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

Quotes by Jenny Holzer

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.

Quotes by Jeffrey Thomas

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

Quotes by Jeff Bezos

In short, Luck's always to blame.

Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine

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.

Quotes by Jay Duplass

In my short acting career, I've been in incredible relationships with incredible women.

Quotes by Jay Duplass

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Quotes by Jason Silva

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

Quotes by Jason Isbell

I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.

Quotes by Jason Jones

My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

Quotes by Jason Dolley

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

Quotes by Janine di Giovanni

I send all my short fiction to 'Ontario Review' because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she's fantastic.

Quotes by Janet Fitch

My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.

Quotes by Jane Lindskold

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

Quotes by Jami Attenberg

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

Quotes by Jami Attenberg

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

Quotes by James McBride

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.

Quotes by James Longstreet

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.

Quotes by James Fenton

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.

Quotes by James Fenton

Life is too short not to experiment.

Quotes by Jamelia

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.

Quotes by Jake Pavelka

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

Quotes by Jack Welch

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Jack London

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.

Quotes by Jack Dee

No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

Quotes by J. J. Watt

Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.

Quotes by J. B. Pritzker

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.

Quotes by Italo Calvino

I write short stories. I write every day.

Quotes by Isaiah Mustafa

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.

Quotes by Irwin Shaw

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Quotes by Irwin Shaw

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Quotes by Ira Hayes

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.

Quotes by Ira Sachs

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.

Quotes by Ian Rankin

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

Quotes by Ian Fleming

Life's too short. It's got to be great.

Quotes by Hugh Dillon

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.

Quotes by Hugh Grant

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Quotes by Horace

Anger is a short madness.

Quotes by Horace

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Quotes by Hippocrates

I did a short film with Donald Glover for one of his Childish Gambino projects, and Flying Lotus was an actor in it.

Quotes by Hiro Murai

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.

Quotes by Hilary Duff

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Quotes by Herbert Read

Life's to short for chess.

Quotes by Henry James Byron

Life's too short for chess.

Quotes by Henry James Byron

My time with my father would be very meaningful, but also very short.

Quotes by Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

Quotes by Helen Fisher

Childhood is a short season.

Quotes by Helen Hayes

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

Quotes by Helen Dunmore

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.'

Quotes by Heather Morris

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

Quotes by Hassan Rouhani

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

Quotes by Harold Pinter

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

Quotes by Harold Prince

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.

Quotes by Hans Rosling

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.

Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.

Quotes by H. W. Brands

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.

Quotes by Guy Fieri

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

Quotes by Gustav Mahler

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