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“I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.”

“I think more and more people are starting to understand that you can't believe half of everything you read or what you see. There are so many information outlets that are available that it's almost too much, there is so much misinformation out there.”

People Thinking Believe Half Too Much Information Starting Available Outlets Misinformation

Author:Kid Rock

“I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?”

People Night Fun Hours Deals Half Situation Rocks Scene Everyday Rock N Roll Mundane Good Fun Fun Night

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.”

Two Lost Water Half Months Eating Throwing Lettuce Throwing Up

Author:Richard Simmons

“For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.”

Heart Half Magazines Live Life Other Half

Author:Hugh Hefner

“When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.”

Ifs Mind States Hours Half Clock State Of Mind Pilots Helicopters Clock Is Ticking

Author:Michael Light

“I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.”

Thinking World Way Two Moving Effort Half Violence Survival Female Moving Forward Plus Two Ways

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!”

World Needs Giving Sports Loses Chance Half Careers Wonderful Drama Hundred Shoes Champion Repeats Interviews Destroying Fifteen Lap Gracious World Champions Jenny

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.”

People World Looks Perfect Half Empty Glasses Half Full Half Empty Nobody's Perfect

Author:Morris Chestnut

“I still think of myself as the new kid, even though I've been on the air for two and a half years. But my job is the same as it ever was, which is to make 9:00 P.M. as good as I can.”

Thinking Years Stills I Can Two Kids Jobs Half Air Half A Year

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat.”

Hours Half Yoga Yoga Mats

Author:Karen Walker

“I was 16 when we made the first song. We've been touring for half a decade together and we've had quite a bit of time spent learning our craft. You improve as a song writer and as a musician over time.”

Firsts Made Together Song Bits Half Musician Decades Crafts Touring Time Spent

Author:Andy Biersack

“I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".”

People Thinking Knows Men Mind Humans Helping Wealth Half Alive One Thing Wake Up

Author:Jack LaLanne

“I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.”

Looks Half Wrecks

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.”

Want Has Beens Understanding Half Keys True To Yourself Really True

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I wrote, I think, half a dozen films that were completely out of genre. Comedies, love stories, even one serious film about Vietnam, and we couldn't get backing for any of it. And we both sort of drifted from making, at that time, serious money on Last House to going through it all in the course of almost three years and only getting offers to do something scary again.”

Thinking Years Stories Lasts Film Three Courses House Half Comedy Serious Offers Scary Love Story Genre Vietnam Three Years Dozen

Author:Wes Craven

“Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up.”

Two Ends Film Three Hours Half Middle Adventure Beginning Middle And End Going On An Adventure

Author:Chris Pratt

“I chose Bagdasarian Productions when I heard from some colleagues at work who were buying story boards at the time back in the early '90. I met the man once when I came in with the first half of the story board and the only thing he said when looking at the first half of the board was, "It's so nice to see someone using their imagination."”

Men Firsts Said Stories Imagination Half Nice Heard He Man Mets Productions Boards Buying Colleagues

Author:Mike Royer

“I don't have any expectations about my films. If they're good, they're good - if they're not, they're not. About 10 years ago, I remember going to see one of my movies - I can't even remember which one now - and everyone was jumping up and down, getting excited, saying what a great film it was going to be. We all went in and watched it, and it was the slowest movie I've ever seen. The next day, the reviews were terrible and half the studio was fired.”

Ifs Years I Can Remember Film Next Half Terrible Expectations Years Ago Studios Excited Reviews Next Day Jumping Up And Down Great Film

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.”

Reason Character Care Half Excited Plot

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters will often help me write the book - not what they look like that's not very important - what people look like is not about their character. You have to describe the shape they leave in the world, how they react to things, what effect they have on people and you do that by telling their story.”

People Ifs World Writing Looks Important Book Sometimes Done Character Helping Stories Half Effects Shapes Help Me

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles.”

Knows Should Littles Forget Half Example Kicks Bottles Bothered Vitamins

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes.”

Thinking Giving Doe Used Games Process Decision Half Team Advantage Planning Decision Making Requirements Decision Making Process Coordinator

Author:Tony Dungy

“Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.”

Knows Trying Half

Author:Donald Miller

“The hardest thing I ever did was get sober. I was drinking two and a half bottles of whiskey a day and taking 40 Vicodin. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.”

Ifs Long Two Care Half Known Taken Drinking Hardest Bottles Sober Hardest Thing Whiskey Vicodin

Author:David Feherty

“I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew eventually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.”

People Years Two Half Nice Kissing Toys Grandchildren Philippines My Grandchildren Half A Year

Author:Don Rickles

“I was the first son and first child. When my sister came along, well, she was two years younger, and I had to go to the golf course because my mother couldn't handle all the action going on. So I came with father to the golf course since I was a year and a half old and I spent the day with him here, and it worked in naturally. And it was fun for me being with my father, and doing things that a kid did it was great.”

Years Firsts Wells Children Two Kids Action Mother Courses Father Fun Half Son Golf Handle Two Years My Sister Golf Course

Author:Arnold Palmer

“Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.”

Trying Book Half Picks

Author:Donald Miller

“I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Should Writing Enough Might Half Quality Opinion Please Lows Dozen

Book:Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

“If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.”

Ifs Hours Half Poet Gains Richness Spun

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.”

Together Cities Half India Twenties Working Together Dozen

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.”

Men Language Women Half Reasoning Men Women Parity

Book:The Role of Women

Source: The Role of Women

“I saw soda pop for $1.20 a six pack. That price messes with your head. You start thinking you're gonna sell soda pop. Suddenly I've got packs of pop with me. "Looking to buy some pop? 50 cents a can. It's not refrigerated because this is a half-assed commitment!"”

Thinking Humor Funny Half Saws Six Commitment Sells Pops Mess Cents Packs Soda Six Packs Soda Pop

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“A fly was very close to being called a land, because that's what it does half the time.”

Doe Humor Funny Half Land

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I would not want to be a mobile home repo man. Those would be hard to sneak away - "Knock knock - Hi, would you go cut your grass and look that way for a half an hour?"”

Men Way Want Looks Hard Home Humor Would Be Funny Hours Half Cutting Grass Mobile Sneak Repo Man

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!”

People Stills Humor Funny Half Gone Baseball

Author:Jerry Coleman

“Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.”

Looks Life Is Half Battle Glasses Smooth Good And Bad Bumps Bad Times Bruises Half Full Good And Bad Times

Author:Dick Vitale

“Men: don't wear the untucked shirttail. It cuts you in half, which is a very bad proportion. Think of yourself as a series of thirds. So when the shirt is tucked in, you're 1/3 on top, 2/3 on the bottom.”

Thinking Men Half Cutting Thirds Series Bottom Shirts Proportion Think Of You

Author:Tim Gunn

“I moved out of my house at 17 and half, I rented an apartment... I pulled all the things off. It was pretty amazing and I lived a pretty good life, I had a car and I was making good money.”

House Half Car Moved Good Life Apartment Good Money

Author:Eric Hernandez

“One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.”

Want I Can Song Half One Thing

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.”

Knows Men Humor Funny Half Intelligent Clever Oxford One Half Toads Clever Man Oxford University

Author:Kenneth Grahame

“For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution.”

May Half History Century Danger Integrity Constitution Unions Obligation Half A Century

Author:Zachary Taylor

“How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.”

Ifs Trying Years Hands Funny Remember Science Forget Half Technology Percent Seconds

Author:Tom Duff

“Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.”

People Trying Years Young Half Path Plans Failing Havens Engineering Engineers Tested Grad Inexperience Years Of Experience

Author:James Dyson

“I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].”

People Thinking Want Writing School Remember Choices Waiting Half Emotional High School Sitting Miserable Ironic Nostalgic Classmates Want To See You

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.”

Ifs Want Feels Writing Mean Play Spirit Wish Half Watches Nice Balance Battle Guilty Relax Chocolate Afternoon Free Spirit Bravo

Author:Sarah Dessen

“There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.”

Years Firsts Children Book Stories Hands Jobs Night Half Support Wife College Machines Management Fellows My Wife Ties Hook Laundry Night Shift

Author:Stephen King

“Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.”

People Shows Hours Half Talking Audience Minutes Missing

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”

Time Literature Half Doubt

Book:Hemingway

Source: Hemingway

“The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.”

Firsts Art Two Ideas Might Together Grows Half Pieces Four Cutting Tree Strange Seeds Apples Pears

Author:Yoko Ono

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