Quotes About Long Shots

#1. Long shots almost always miss the mark.

Peter Lynch

#2. I'm a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don't know, I think everything's so quick cut these days, as if films are too afraid that the audience is going to get bored instead of relaxing and trusting their work.

Alice Englert

#3. Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

John H. Johnson

#4. In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#5. Observable Fact: You should never take long shots. Better to study the odds and take the probable shot. However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it.

Nicola Yoon

#6. And so not only do you have to make that work, you can't really start putting the thing together in any form because some of the shots are very short and obviously many of them take so long, you're waiting months and months and months before you can see if it's going to be working emotionally.

Charlie Kaufman

#7. No war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

Margaret Case Harriman

#8. The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

Mark Batterson

#9. I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Bobby Thomson

#10. There are times when a golfer is tempted to throw her clubs away and forget the whole 'humblin' business.' At other times, she wouldn't trade places with a queen-that's when the shots are long and true, and putts are dropping.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#11. The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.

Alfonso Cuaron

#12. Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.

Harry Callahan

#13. Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.

Newton Lee

#14. My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.

Rickie Fowler

#15. I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

R. Kelly

#16. The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

Karl Marx

#17. I wonder why he shot me ?

Huey Long

#18. I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.

Dan Harmon

#19. In a normal movie, the director controls what you look at. The shots don't last very long because you're getting the audience to look at specific things. An IMAX shot, on the other hand, can be twenty or thirty seconds long.

Greg MacGillivray

#20. I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.

Priyanka Chopra

#21. The shadows of the tombstones in the graveyard stretched out long and violet, and the sound of the flies buzzed in my ears, louder than the ringing of the shots that still came - were coming closer - to the frail barrier of the dead.

Diana Gabaldon

#22. In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#23. Telling the story with only a few shots, I love that style. It makes you feel like you're part of the action, part of the story. It reminds me of the theater, where one act is basically like one long shot. It almost makes you forget that you're seeing a movie.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#24. Instead of saying "Amanda took one look at the hotel room and recoiled in disgust," describe the room in such a way that the readers feel that disgust for themselves. You don't want to give your readers information. You want to give them experiences.

Renni Browne

#25. It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.

Patti Stanger

#26. The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.

Elliott Erwitt

#27. Hale looked at Macey, who added, "Seven minutes since shots fired."
"Kat what's the emergency response tie in Midtown Manhattan?"
"Not long enough if they want a clean exit," she told him.
Macey hadn't heard Kat's words, but she looked at Hale like she'd read his mind.

Ally Carter

#28. The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have something.

Julie Delpy