Half Quotes - Page 30

• Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.

  Anthony Doerr

  Lying, Airplane, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.

  Ben E. King

  Attitude, Singers, Different

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• Being hapa, or more specifically, half-Japanese half-Euro mutt (English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in case you were wondering), has definitely helped shape who I am. It's very cool to get to identify and learn about all these unique cultures and I think it's helped put the world in perspective.

  Kina Grannis

  Unique, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Home, Islands, Numbers

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.

  Lauren Groff

  War, Community, Individual

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different magazines. A lot of them said they got so many submissions that unless the first page stuck out or the first paragraph or even the first sentence they'll probably send it back. So part of my idea was that if I have a really good first sentence maybe they'll read on a bit further. At least half, maybe more of the stories in Knockemstiff started with the first sentence; I got it down then went from there.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  School, Editors, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never.

  Denis Hayes

  Airplane, Speed, Easier

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.

  Marty Nemko

  Good Night, Jobs, Sleep

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• In most homes, from what I know of them, even though the woman's place in that particular home might be in the home, still, she is queen of her house. So I like exploring the many different incarnations of women in that country, actually. You find quite a range of these women in this book - each one of them embodies a completely different personality type. And how can you write a book that's only full of men, anyway? I mean, half the population of this world is women.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Country, Queens, Book

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• If you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern regimes: Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Tunisia. Egypt is the number-one importer of wheat in the entire world. Tunisia leads the entire world in per capita wheat consumption. So it's no wonder that the revolutions began with Tunisians waving baguettes in the streets and Egyptians wearing helmets made of bread.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Egypt, Iraq, Numbers

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's also the issue of tech titans throwing their weight around in Washington and lobbying. There was just a Reuters poll that reported that more than half of Americans are concerned that tech companies are "encroaching too much on their lives." That's pretty major, considering these companies were universally loved not that long ago.

  Astra Taylor

  Issues, Long Ago, Too Much

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.

  Debra Dean

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the move to nonfiction didn't feel all that dramatic - just another half-step to the right.

  Debra Dean

  Moving, Historical, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.

  Dean Wareham

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Songs kind of live in a timeless place for me, and since I make records I dunno, about every two-and-a-half to three years or something like that, it's just not enough to put all the songs that I have, no matter how much I put.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Years, Two

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• I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

  Annie E. Clark

  Player, Guitar, Firsts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The visuals and the audio, could stand by themselves in a way. But the whole idea of the thing, is that they would exist together. So I think together, they're way more of a stronger thing. You could listen to just the music, or just watch the video, but I think it would really mean... obviously it would just be half the experience.

  Panda Bear

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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• I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm a big devotee of the short line, of couplets and tercets, and of irregular stanzas with lots of white space. I've got to give the dense language room to breathe!

  Anna Journey

  Always On My Mind, White, Space

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest and natural about it, but for us I feel like it would be dishonest and kinda disrespectful to that artwork to do that. To be like: "Okay, we're going to go back and only play these songs, even though we have an hour to an hour and a half set and we gotta play more songs, but we'll skimp you on your extra half hour." That's just silly to me.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Silly, Play

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• I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Sea, Wrecks

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.

  Bernie Sanders

  Two, Campaigns, Individual

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Things are very different now because a lot of those little clubs don't exist. In Soho for instance, where nearly half my nightlife photographs were taken, it's rapidly changing. There isn't the same after dark frisson of excitement about the place any more.

  Derek Ridgers

  Taken, Dark, Nightlife

  Source: therumpus.net

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• China's economy became more complex. By now there is a large number of small- and medium-sized companies that work quite differently from big, state-owned enterprises. They don't follow any long-term business plan and don't rent office space for years to come. They start out and need an office right away, for a week, a month or half a year, and they want to be among other entrepreneurs like themselves.

  Zhang Xin

  Office Space, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.

  Melissa Febos

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The voting station was like a block and a half from my house, so me and my parents just walked on over and cast our ballots, and it was really cool. I love the civic pride of being a part of this national activity.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Block, Pride, House

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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