#shorter

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#clearer #fiction #saying #says #scrap

I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#did #discipline #feet #how #i

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#close #close proximity #club #i #intense

The faster you go, the shorter you are. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#go #shorter #you

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention spans #coming #dominant #getting #hollywood

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

— Calista Flockhart

#had #i #long #relationships #shorter

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#good #good company #journey #makes #seem

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

— Len Wein

#captivating #encapsulate #general #halfway #home

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. ↗

— Saul Williams

#does #fool #great #great deal #history

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. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#bending #close-up #got #him #how