#few

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater. ↗

— John Hurt

#competitive #fewer #get #greater #i

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#been #box #box office #culture #even

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around. ↗

— Sylvia Earle

#around #bay #belt #big #big fish

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. ↗

— Vida Blue

#asking #ball games #baseball #cameras #few

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#along #breaks #came #few #i

But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#efforts #ended #europe #few #including

It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#better #few #harder #me #realize

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#book #bookstore #content #few #glance

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#before #beforehand #calculations #few #fought

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#back #because #die #elderly #few