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Derek Brunson is aggressive, knows how to close the distance, but couldn't do anything against Anderson.

Conor McGregor knows how to control distance well, but Anderson does it like nobody else.

We're doing a lot of work on self-driving cars. We do not currently have cars in the U.S., but we plan to, for development and testing. I think we are within striking distance of making self-driving cars a reality, and these would be powered by deep learning.

If your eyes are far apart, bringing the brow shape closer together gives the illusion of shorter distance between the eyes.

The best mark of a player is to beat him over a long distance.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Everybody needs to take a little distance from things.

It was this feeling the whole time like I shouldn't be here among all these stars and professionals. I was trying to keep my distance because I wanted to watch everyone. But they want you to feel at home and be part of it, and it became normal very quickly.

When you're shooting with long lenses, even if you're shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject.

I have worked out I can quite happily jog the distance to work as long as I hail a cab first and leave my high heels on the back seat.

Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.

Though personally I'm not a fan of celebrating with fireworks, it is beautiful to watch the sight from a distance.

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.