My agents usually get a breakdown of all the projects that are out there. When I got 'Divergent,' they hadn't finished the script. They knew they wanted the leader of the Dauntless to have a certain demeanor and energy. They had me read a short monologue, and I got the part.
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length.
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
I do miss my hair because I used to do so much stuff with it, but I do like different levels of short. I had a super short pixie before, and I loved it.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
As much as with increased exploration new gas reserves can be found, what must be obvious to all is that our oil and gas reserves are not renewable and they are diminishing, and to protect the generations to come, we must engage in nothing short of a radical shift in the diversification of the economy.
Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.
My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
