#shorter

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

— Abraham Cahan

#i #imagined #much #shorter #than

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. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#attention spans #audience #because #being #clearly

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

#capacity #greater #our #our time #patience

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#becomes #days #easy #energy #get

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

— Ken Burns

#control #creative #creative control #enjoy #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

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

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

— Victor Hugo

#life #make #short #shorter #still

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. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#big #difference #dressed #get #little

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. ↗

— Jorja Fox

#change #else #everybody #everybody else #frame