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But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.

I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.

It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.