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'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.
I will continue to need operations and therapy for life. For acid attack survivors, the aftermath is a life sentence.
Regrettably, the media are seemingly incapable of mentioning the words 'compassion' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
My sentence formally was imposed on my mothers 50th Birthday January 24th 1983. The jury recommended it July 1st 1982.
Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'
You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.
It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.
In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.
I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.
You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.
The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
I didn't feel at all guilty about what I did, so I couldn't plead guilty, even though I would get a more lenient sentence.
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.
I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'
There's never been a time in my life where you had the names the United States and political uncertainty in the same sentence.
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
The key to asking someone out is to not really ask. In other words, don't feel your sentence needs to end with a question mark.
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.
'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person.
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
After 'Gangs,' people thought that I couldn't speak a sentence in English or that I don't wear jeans or, you know, I am a city girl.
I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.
You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single sentence.
I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every sentence you write.
I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.
It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
I would love for the time to come where somebody can talk about me and not have to talk about Britney and Christina in the same sentence.
I used to teach at the Columbia journalism school, and I would tell my students that every book has to have a sentence that motivates it.
I think if someone were to ask me to put in one sentence what it is that I do, I would say that I try to be in action more than in words.
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.