#length

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film. ↗

— Frank Darabont

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You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation. ↗

— David Attenborough

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I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice. ↗

— Chuck Daly

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I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length. ↗

— George Mercer Dawson

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