Half Quotes
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.
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Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
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Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
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No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.
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I used to, like, hit for a half hour and then go eat Cheetos the rest of the day, come out and drill forehands. Now I'm really trying to make it happen, being professional, really going for it, and I miss my Cheetos.
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It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
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The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.
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Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
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I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.
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Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.
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There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.
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Half of 'Mudbound' were shots I stole in between other scenes.
