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“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.”

Knows Should Long Eye Actors Lines Boys Know How Members Long Time Shots Cameras Handle Crew Electrician

Author:Jodie Foster

“Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.”

Should Long America President Term Successful Plans Higher Taxes Elements Financial Budgets Long Term Fund Wealthy President Obama Revenue Recessions

Author:Steven Rattner

“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.”

Ifs Want Should Writing Years Long Book Real Ends Wanted Dies Novel Impossible Goes On Tradition Tragedy Wounds Real Life Scar Conventional Happy Endings Old Wounds

Author:Willa Cather

“The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.”

People Should Trying Long Art Enough Enjoy Justice Art Is Criticism Filled Misery Photographer Speed Arguing Sympathetic

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.”

Should Long Care Long Life

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.”

Should May Long Soul Enough Order Wise Demand Advancement Provision Unfolding

Author:Ernest Holmes

“I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar’s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.”

“People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.”

People Should Long Made Walks Impression Lasting True Friendship Footsteps Footballer People In Your Life Long Lasting Lasting Impressions

Author:Michael Bassey

“Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.”

Should Humans Long Opportunity Justice Demand Equal Absolutes Rewards Income Provision Vary Equal Opportunity

Author:Sayyid Qutb

“You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.”

Should Long Might Running Goal Worry Too Much Achieve Finding Yourself Long Runs Achieving Your Goals

Author:Chad Channing

“Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name.”

Should Long Said I Can Remember Names Parent Taught Proud Long Ago Emma

Author:Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

“It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.”

People Knows Should Long Responsibility Rights Couple Gay Married Fairs Standing Should Have Stable Gay Marriage Horrific Married Couples Rights And Responsibilities Gay Relationship

Author:Ian Mckellen

“Dogs should be called by names which are not very long, so that each may obey more quickly when he is called, but they should not have shorter names than those which are pronounced in two syllables.”

Should May Long Two Names Dog Syllables

Author:Columella

“I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.”

People Thinking Way Want Should Long Has Beens Company Records Trouble Products Sells Record Companies Overcharging

Author:Black Francis

“I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don't feel well.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Writing Wells Long Two Happens Waiting Acting Crazy Stage Months Impatient Two Months

Author:Erland Josephson

“Partial-birth abortion, I think that's going to be upheld. I think that ban is going to be upheld. I think it should be. And I think, as long as there's provision for the life of the mother, then that's something that should be done.”

Thinking Should Long Done Mother Birth Abortion Provision Bans

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.”

Thinking Should Long Growth Term Strategy Debt Long Term Packages Short Term Reduction

Author:William J. Clinton

“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.”

Ifs Want Giving Should Long Doe Matter Enough Inspire Plenty Statistics Accurate

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying.”

People Should Long Sadness Cry

Author:Dalai Lama

“Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.”

Ifs Men Want Should Littles Long Stills Song Wish Gold Score Muster Mint

Book:POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Source: POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY

“No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.”

Should Long Conditions Amount Resources Kitchen Preaching Needles Benevolence Working Women

Author:Horace Greeley

“Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.”

Should Long Said Eye Happiness Form Night White Wonderful Hair Bed Snow His Eyes Dry Tall Every Night Long Ago Bent Slender Jolly Gait

Author:George Arnold

“Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.”

People Thinking Should Long Waiting Levels Subjects Economics University

Author:Robert Duvall

“Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.”

Should Long Facts Action Christian Form Cheeks Nevertheless Bribe Turn The Other Cheek

Author:Gary North

“I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.”

Should Believe Long I Believe Social Term Conditions Security Accounts Workers Long Term Social Security Deficit Reduction

Author:Cliff Stearns

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”

Should Long Has Beens Cities Economy New York Should Have London Should Have Been City Life Tokyo Metropolis Cities At Night City Of London

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.”

Ifs Giving Should Long Moments Past Worry Should Have Forgotten Present Moment Long Ago Over The Past Skip Agonizing

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting ... long-term vision. They should be practical.”

Thinking Feels Should Long Term Forget Vision Cases Honestly Practicals Long Term

Author:Dalai Lama

“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.”

Ifs Thinking Should Children Long I Can Book Hard Asks Be Good Ask Me Children's Books

Author:Astrid Lindgren

“An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.”

World Should Long Desire Belief Childhood Scene One Day Fancy Enthusiastic Visiting Old World Early Childhood

Book:Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

“The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.”

Should Looks Long Nations Growing Essentials Characteristics Prudence Foresight

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.”

“An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.”

Knows Should Long Art Lasts Artist Values Shock Art History Shock Value

Author:Robert Longo

“Bestiality is not my thing But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal doesn't mind (and the animal rarely does), I don't mind, and I don't see why anyone else should.”

People Should Mind Long Doe Seems Animal Idiosyncrasies Foibles

Author:Frank Kameny

“My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know.”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Wells Long Book Realizing Written Theory Reader Let Me Sticks Hopefully Entertaining

Author:Charles de Lint

“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.”

Ifs Men Should Long Country Government Would Be Law Force Powerful Doubt Groups Judging Citizens Safe Constitution Court Threat Neighbor Command Entitled Prominent Unruly Boisterous

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground.”

Should Long Has Beens Made Cities Air Building Posts Wire Automobile Hideous Billboards

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.”

Ifs Knows Should Long Law Feet Standards Conscience Thirds Indifferent Uncertain Equity One Chance

Author:John Selden

“We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.”

Should Looks Long Past Please Contempt Tenderness

Book:An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994

Source: An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994

“The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.”

Ifs World Want Should Heart Long Individual Worry This World Prove Understood Destruction Traditional Commandments Unimaginable

Book:Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man

Source: Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man

“There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a right to advance.”

Men Should Long

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.”

“Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run the safest food supply is a local food supply, not a supply that is dependent on a global economy. Nations and regions within nations must be left free and should be encouraged to develop the local food economies that best suit local needs and local conditions.”

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.”

Should Long Ideas Law Courses House Common Events Ought Calling Degrees Normal Illusion Errors Notion Stupidity Finished Firm Risen Residual Law Firms

Author:Alain de Botton

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.”

Thinking Should May Long Left Term Pieces Stage Poet Reader Fame Ten Critics Following Stealing Temples Pounds Orthodox Justification Long Ago Shrinks Posterity Condemnation Charlatans

Author:Laura Riding

“Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.”

Should Long Suffering Effort Grace Dying Patient Protected Honored Symptoms

Author:Marcia Angell

“Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (...) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.”