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“My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.”

Thinking Firsts Would Be Jobs Moving Actors Found Father Left Half Stupid Amount Waiter

Author:Alfred Molina

“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.”

Men Writing Stills Whole Left Half Morning Four Wife Land Fields Promise Whole Life Clock Dozen Pigs New Day Wisest Fertility Pastures Wisest Man Pallets

Author:Jose Saramago

“I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my way back to where I left off. I have my headphones on, I'm checking email, I look at Twitter and Tumblr, and drink a lot of coffee. I need a lot of distraction to work.”

“Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.”

Men Might Left Hours Half Company Hundred Capacity Agree Shining Faults Every Man Qualified Tolerable

Book:The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe

Source: The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe

“We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.”

Heart Left Wish Imagination Poor Half Gone Instant Shutters

Book:Pericles and Aspasia

Source: Pericles and Aspasia

“About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.”

States Left United Half United States Becoming Settling Canada Provinces Settlers Pioneering Nova Scotia Novas Settling In Loyalists

Author:Rachel Martin

“It breaks your heart when you throw something away, but it's what left that counts. It's like worrying about the bits of rock you have knocked off in order to make a beautiful statue. You've wasted half the rock, yeah, but it's the Venus di Milo!”

Heart Beautiful Order Left Bits Half Break Worry Rocks Yeah Statues Venus Break Your Heart

Author:Ricky Gervais

“The gym teacher's name was Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso did not speak English. He spoke 'Gym.' One day I was playing basketball and Mr. Caruso told me I would have to get an athletic supporter. He didn't express himself exactly that way, though. He said, 'Hey, you, one day you're gonna go up for a rebound and the family jewels aren't gonna go with ya.' I had no idea what he was talking about. Next day I showed up for practice without my watch and my mezuzah. He said, 'Did ya take care of the family jewels?' I said, 'I left 'em in my locker.' Took us a half hour to revive Mr. Caruso.”

“So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.”

“The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.”

Trying Enough Wisdom Left Interest Half Support Aphorism Fading

Author:Mason Cooley

“No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.”

People Left Behinds Half Thrive Left Behind

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.”

Two Truth Left Half Pairs Gloves Half Truth Left Handed

Book:The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli

Source: The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli

“I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...”

“I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!”

People Giving Mind Fall Left Pay Half Careers Grace Built Roots Let Me Give Me Towns Tables Envy Restaurants Los Angeles Spectacular Unemployed Back Again Falls From Grace

Author:Mickey Rourke