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“Every movie is a commitment of a year or a year and a half. Commercials are much faster than that because they're much more contained. You can get in and out really fast, and you do a piece of work the you see the end result very quickly.”

Years Ends Results Half Pieces Commitment Faster End Results

Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“I ended up meeting this guy Stefan Simchowitz, who produced Requiem for a Dream and also went to AFI. I randomly met him in Cannes. By September of 2000, we had made a deal with this company that he was working with. They merged with us and in January of 2001, we opened WireImage. It was pretty crazy because I only started shooting celebrity stuff in 1998 - literally two and a half years later, I'm opening this company.”

Years Made Two Dream Guy Stuff Deals Half Company Crazy Mets Meetings Opening Shooting September This Guy January Half A Year Cannes Requiem Requiem For A Dream

Author:Jeff Vespa

“Leica are known for their still camera lenses and in the last year and a half have come out with a series of film lenses and they are brilliant. The best thing about them, apart from their quality, which is uniform, is that each one is the same size, pretty much the same weight... So in terms of fitting into the rig, everything is almost purpose built for that and the quality is beautiful, really beautiful.”

“Normally, when I read a script, it takes me two and a half hours. I usually put it down and come back to it. So, I know if I can read a script in one sitting, it's a fantastic script.”

Ifs Knows I Can Two Hours Half Sitting Down And Scripts Fantastic Take Me Half Hours I Can Read

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“You can get stuff done in New York that you can't in Los Angeles. If you wanted to get some milk and get your shoes repaired and drop something off at the dry cleaner, that's an all-day adventure in Los Angeles. In New York, you can bang that out in half an hour.”

Ifs Done Wanted Stuff Hours Half New York Adventure Shoes Dry Los Angeles Milk Bangs Cleaners Dry Cleaners

Author:Justin Theroux

“One of the challenges assembling the film was that gun fight went on for three and a half hours and we obviously couldn't spend three and a half hours of the film with one gun fight. It was trying to figure out the balance of how much an audience could take before they either became repulsed or desensitized or bored or just overwhelmed.”

Trying Film Fighting Three Hours Challenges Half Audience Figures Balance Gun Bored Overwhelmed Half Hours Assembling

Author:Peter Berg

“I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.”

Knows Needs Littles Real Bigs Bits Process Hours Half Focus Little Bit Down And Sat Amazed Chunks Half Hours

Author:Terence Winter

“When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.”

Way Needs Feels Done Girl Half Aggressive Outrageous Half Way

Author:Brigid Brannagh

“The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.”

Wells Three Father Half Study Judging Towns Eight Tutor Our Town

Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.”

Hands Loses Half Coins One Half

Author:Saadi

“I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.”

Needs Half Issues Dollars Billions Not Sure Health Issues Women's Health

Author:Jeb Bush

“I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.”

Feels Real Reality Individual Half Wonder Alive Tradition Hatred Sake Customs Superstitions Spontaneous Detest Sense Of Wonder

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.”

Ends Helping Attention Half Millions Week Tvs Fellows Wit Chosen Mediums Dedicated Editing Propositions

Author:Terry Teachout

“They say there are something like 12 million illegal immigrants in the country right now, with another half a million coming every year. Remember in the last election when the Democrats claimed there was two Americas? Turns out one of them was Mexico.”

Years Two Country Lasts Remember Turns Half Millions Right Now Election Democrat Immigrants Illegal Mexico Illegal Immigrants

Author:Jay Leno

“I am riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half pipe snowboarding. I am fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I am also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.”

Moments Bigs Might Happens Sports Half Terrible Wave Extremes Accidents Fascinated Surfing Pipe Skateboarding Snowboarding Captivated Extreme Sports

Author:Lucy Walker

“Playing half court or even organising a practise game against another team is a great way to train. It ensures a tough session and is often the best way to learn what works and what doesn't”

Way Games Half Team Tough Court Train Best Way Session Practise

Author:Catherine Cox

“I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!”

Space Views Cities Half Adventure Training Fighter Exploration Space Exploration Moscow My Space Love Adventure

Author:Brian Blessed

“This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.”

Ifs Want Given Half Support Building Materials Projects Evidence Resources Method Available Miles Statistics Dictatorship Scientific Evidence

Author:Jacque Fresco

“There are over 30 doctors running for the US Congress this year. That's going to be rather strange. Half the time these folks will be playing God and asking women to take their clothes off and the other half the time they will be doctors.”

Years Running Half Strange Clothes Doctors Asking Congress Folks Other Half Playing God

Author:Jay Leno

“Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.”

Heaven Prayer Half Bounds Busy Pops Hearted Too Busy Half Hearted

Book:Purpose in Prayer

Source: Purpose in Prayer

“To pray diligently is more than half the task.”

Half Praying Tasks

Author:Martin Luther

“The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'”

Firsts War Winning Half Soldier Missions Vietnam Captains Apocalypse

Author:Dylan Ratigan

“If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy!”

Ifs Looks Causes Walks Half Wonder Crazy Like You Hair Arms Office Picks Shoes Necks Pants Tattoo Up And Down

Book:Mayor: The Best Job in Politics

Source: Mayor: The Best Job in Politics

“Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers are very cunning people who are not only unfolding and revealing. Just like conjurors and magicians, they are hiding stuff too.”

People Writing Stuff Bits Half Happenings Hiding Magician Cunning Revealing Unfolding

Author:Michael Rosen

“When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.”

World Doe Individual Half Conflict Conscious Opposites Contradiction Torn

Author:Carl Jung

“I'm so scared girls look at my breast implants and think, 'To get boys, you need big boobs.' I tell them, 'Don't get it done. Those fears go away. You develop other insecurities, but breasts aren't one of them.' I want to get them half-size.”

Thinking Want Needs Looks Done Bigs Girl Half Boys Size Scared Breasts Insecurity Going Away Get It Done Implants Breast Implants

Author:Jenny McCarthy

“The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.”

Book Force Half Cutting Clubs Ties Branches Pairs Officers Discouraging Publication Obscene Squad Scissors

Author:John Mortimer

“If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!”

Ifs Half Cutting Painting

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.”

Children Half Seeing Empty Our Children Cups Half Empty

Author:Maria Bamford

“There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.”

May Whole Problem Half Involved Morality Behavior Solve Being True Legislation Half Truth

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.”

Children Home Bigs Poor Cities Half Path Fate Streets Crime Ordinary Prison Finals Instance Gates Orphan Big Cities Inmates

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.”

Way States Imagination Sleep Half Active Waking Reverie Half Way

Author:Carl Jung

“A maid that laughs is half taken.”

Half Laughing Taken Maids

Book:A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768

Source: A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768

“I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.”

Years Age Born Half Four Regret Half A Year

Book:Groucho And Me

Source: Groucho And Me

“There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.”

Way Giving Half Lord Honor Giving Up Possession Plenty Our Lord Other Half Half Way

Author:Meister Eckhart

“I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.”

Knows Happens Jobs Felt Half Cold Hungry Great Men

Book:The Big Sea: An Autobiography

Source: The Big Sea: An Autobiography

“The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.”

Half Understood Hints Incarnation Quartets

Author:T. S. Eliot

“It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read.”

Knows May Book Left Half Know How Week Ten Take Me Abandoned Typical Shelves Unread Books

Author:Ken Kalfus

“It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.”

Hours Half Insignificant Half Hours Insignificant Things

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You love the way it makes me feel when I can't catch my breath Like walkin' on a high wire, Lord, it scares me half to death You're always high above me and I'm always fallin' down Our loves just a circus baby, and I'm just the clown”

Way Feels I Can Half Lord Baby Breaths Scare Our Love Clown Wire Circus

Author:Conway Twitty

“It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.”

Needs Book Facts Half Duty Cooks Cookery Cookery Books

Book:Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained

Source: Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained

“The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.”

Ifs Should Two Sometimes Bigs Might Running Three Water Half Sea Feet Lows Hundred Bottom Surface Torn Vessel Extending Reefs Iceberg

Author:Edward Smith

“Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.”

Men Years Waiting Half Enemy Fifty Forty Traps Cunning

Author:Joseph C. Aldrich

“The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Remember Mother Values Term Perfect Half Heard Taught Percent First Time Lips Ass

Author:Justin Timberlake

“Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.”

Ideas Today Able Half Dignity Workers Saving No Idea Retiring Savings American Workers

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.”

Thinking Hands Half Doubt Wise Fool Goes On Vanity Despise Ambitious Restless Stimulus Exertion Ploughing

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.”

People Ifs Wells Half Four Productions Speed Obligation Factors Half Time

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.”

Moments Hours Half Miserable Half Hours Wagner Great Moments

Author:Mark Twain

“Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.”

Evil Results Half Intention Good Intentions

Author:Mark Twain

“I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.”

Thinking World Way Half Shadow My Way Unhappiness No Fear Orthodoxy Spectre

Author:Thomas Huxley