#short

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

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I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'. ↗

— James Callaghan

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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

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There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

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I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth. ↗

— James Cameron

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One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

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People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years. ↗

— Corey Feldman

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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. ↗

— Jane Campion

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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. ↗

— Jane Campion

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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