If football is your passion in life and you would rather play football for 20 years and have a shortened life span, that's your choice.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
My sister's name is Hennessy, so everybody used to be, like, 'Bacardi' to me. Then I shortened it to Cardi B. The 'B' stands for whatever, depending on the day... beautiful or bully.
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.
I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.
Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.
We thought Raffie Ritchie sounded really cute when shortened. His older brother Rocco helped choose the name - we were throwing ideas out there as a family, and it stuck from early on.
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.
A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.
