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• I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was trying to do, which was just entertain. Which he does very successfully, though the humor is almost dated now.

  John Gimlette

  Trying, Doe, Realizing

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I lived on Fulton Street in an enormous studio - I needed a bicycle to get to the toilet, about half a mile between two streets - next to Wall Street.

  Erro

  Wall, Two, Next

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.

  Daughn Gibson

  New York, Growing Up, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

  Questlove

  Jobs, People, Sticks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

  Beck

  Song, Thinking, Winning

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half of the century, even though there had obviously been an enormous amount of development, so I read about and thought about that for a couple of years before I decided I was ready for a book.

  Charles R. Morris

  Couple, War, Book

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• There's always the question of time. Does time at 10:00 mean 10:00 sharp? Or does it mean give or take a few minutes? And a few minutes, is that plus or minus two minutes? Or plus or minus ten, or maybe a half an hour each way?

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, Two, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

  Mark Lanegan

  Taken, Thinking, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't know if it was related to the type of music that we were doing at that time or what, but Todd Cook actually just turned to me and was like, "You know what would be a great name for a metal band? Dead Child." We talked half-jokingly that we were going to do a band. I guess as time went on, I started writing songs that were more metal sounding, and it just evolved from there. It actually started with the name first, and then the songs came second.

  David Pajo

  Song, Children, Writing

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.

  David Pajo

  Ohio, Three, Midwest

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.

  Zach Condon

  Pain, Guitar, Bridges

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of the experts, believe that the goal is impossible.

  Burt Rutan

  Believe, Talking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days off, Christmas and New Year's, Thanksgiving sometimes - two and a half. And the result is that I bonded myself to my desk.

  James Lipton

  New Year, School, Years

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• Sometimes people won't even finish a piece that you wrote, because they've already decided what it is that you want to say, and generally I, whatever I say in the first half of the piece, you should not assume I'm going to end up with, but they don't finish reading them. So, and people read fast and stuff.

  Louis Menand

  Reading, People, Pieces

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Two, Shapes, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I had prepared myself for the second half of my life [to be] filled with other passions that don't include being in front of the camera. And then all of a sudden I got more work and more work and more work. And I went, "Well maybe things have shifted." And I think they have.

  Sandra Bullock

  Passion, Thinking, Cameras

  "Sandra Bullock, Boxed In On The Set Of 'Gravity'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 4, 2013.

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• When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

  John Cleese

  Lying, Talking, People

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• Anybody who's in the dressing room after the show always says, "Oh, my God, I was kind of worried that the show was going to be sleepy because you were half asleep, yawning, and not really present."

  Martina Sorbara

  Yawning, Rooms, Sleepy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour of drama. You don't need convoluted plot lines. You don't need long-lost brothers. You don't need it's set on the future; it's set on the moon.

  Ricky Gervais

  Brother, Drama, Struggle

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Years, Harry Truman

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• Every chance at destabilizing [Bashar] Assad... the bombing campaign causes a flood of refugees into Jordan, there's already half a million in Jordan. I think a bombing campaign - I think it's hard to argue that a U.S. bombing campaign is going to cause less refugees. And I think it causes more refugees and more of a humanitarian disaster. I think it causes, or allows, the risk of Israel being attacked with a gas attack to go up, if we attack Assad. So there's all kinds of bad things.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Israel, Risk

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• Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

  Matthew Perry

  Thinking, Dinner, Comedy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just... I don't know.

  Carol Friedman

  Girl, World, Digital

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Certain miracles that I beheld there have haunted my memory ever since: a gray April morning of sirocco, when the almond blossoms, the flaming tulips, the young green of the vines, hung as if painted on the motionless air; a summer night when the roses had an unearthly pallor under a half-eaten moon, whose ghostliness was somehow one with their perfume and with the phosphorescence of dew tipping their petals; a day when the trees stood part submerged in fog, into which leaves dropped slowly, slowly, one after another, and sank out of sight.

  Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

  Summer, Morning, Memories

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• 'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Sleep, Eye

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