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I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy.
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
What really surprised me was that more than half of all deaths by gunshot are suicides, more than 20,000 a year, about 58 a day.
I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.
I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.
Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.
I was sober for, like, a year and a half, and I was 25, and I actually did have a manic episode, and I was diagnosed as bipolar.
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.
I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half Japanese at heart.
For the young Gaels of Ireland Are the lads that drive me mad, For half their words need footnotes And half their rhymes are bad.
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.
It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.
I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.
A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.
There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.
Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
Trees are our closest relatives. What trees exhale, we inhale; what we exhale, they inhale. They are half our respiratory system.
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.
As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.
I didn't want to go to college, I didn't want to play football anymore, and I kind of just goofed off for about a year and a half.
I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.
I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am.
I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.