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• The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.

  Isabella Beeton

  Party, Giving, Flying

  Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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• Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

  Woodrow Wilson

  Writing, Two, Long

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• I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it.

  Woody Allen

  Daughter, Fun, Simple

  "Woody Allen Interview – Vicky Cristina Barcelona". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2008.

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• One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put 'em at ten o'clock and two o' clock. Never mind that . I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Hands, Two

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Christian, Prayer, Needs

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• A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.

  Ray Fitzgerald

  Baseball, Two, Half

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• Holly walked rapidly into the cockpit, strapping herself into the pilot's chair. "Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn’t there some law that says we get at least twenty-four?" Artemis strapped himself into the co-pilot's chair. "I don't think Opal bothers with laws.

  Eoin Colfer

  Thinking, Law, Hollies

  "Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (Book 4)". Book by Eoin Colfer, April 30, 2005.

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• They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

  Bryan Brown

  Revenge, Different, Stories

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• Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them.

  Jack Lambert

  Letting Go, Football, Play

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• Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.

  Eda LeShan

  Love, Couple, Pain

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• I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come out on top against one of the strongest guys physically that tennis had probably seen especially on this surface. So they would probably be the things that I would say I have learned tonight: To not doubt myself physically and mentally from now on.

  Andy Murray

  Winning, Tennis, Guy

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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.

  Andy Roddick

  Tennis, Missing, Trying

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• The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.

  Stevie Nicks

  Two, Half, Gigs

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• I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler

  Patrick Dempsey

  Jobs, Kids, Weekend

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• Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Dream, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

  Matt Damon

  Half, Tables, Firsts

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• It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!

  Mila Kunis

  Fun, Half, Study

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• I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and it's dark outside and the whole day has gone by and I don't know where it's gone. But there's bad days, too. Where I struggle and sweat and a half hour creeps by and I've written three words. And half a day creeps by and I've written a sentence and a half and then I quit for the day and play computer games. You know, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you. [Laughs]

  George R. R. Martin

  Morning, Coffee, Struggle

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• Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  New York, Party, Men

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• We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

  William Boyd

  Half, Filth, Hours

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over the revulsion of putting something in my ear that's been in his, I sit back and let the music take over, and for a half hour there's something comforting about someone's heart beating at the same rhythm as mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  Song, Heart, Comforting

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.105, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A cold blast hit him and he laughed at the sting as he stepped outside, surveyed the night sky, and drank deeply. Such a good liar he was. Such a good one. Everyone thought he was fine because he'd camo'd his little problems. He wore a Sox hat to hide the eye twitch. Set his wristwatch to go off every half hour to beat back the dream. Ate though he wasn't angry. Laughed though he found nothing funny. And he'd always smoked like a chimney.

  J.R. Ward

  Dream, Liars, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.387, Penguin

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• The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

  Emily Bronte

  Half, Hours, Clock

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• I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!

  Janet Evanovich

  Half, Too Much, Hours

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “To the Nines”, p.12, Macmillan

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• TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

  Bill McKibben

  Half, Tvs, Easy

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