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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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• I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.

  Heidi Julavits

  My Own

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.

  Julianna Baggott

  Beautiful, Writing, Cutting

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

  Amartya Sen

  Government, Effort, Famine

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• I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Pits, Bulls

  "Back to School With Walter Martin" by Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I remember that my sisters gave me this beautiful, like, empty book for Christmas. And I would draw all these beautiful women. Most of the time it was mermaids and a Minotaur: half human, half animal. I used to be obsessed with Minotaurs when I was a child.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Beautiful, Children, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I spend the first half of my day dealing with Europe because of the time difference. Then in the evening my website gets my undivided attention.

  Olivia Palermo

  Europe, Differences, Attention

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it. I understand its structural flaws, and the lies it tells, which are primarily, but not always, the lies of omission, and I wasn't going to leave that out. Knopf offered to publish the book but they said that an editor was going to "take out all the negativity," which, of course, I wasn't going to accept. I had been paid half my advance, and I had Nation Books buy the manuscript for that half.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Believe, Book

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• So, it just seemed like it happened naturally. We nailed our live show to some extent in a year or about a year and a half, maybe just a year of playing songs pretty much around L.A. then we went and scheduled a mini-tour up-state on the West Coast and that's when the whole Rough Trade [Records] thing started happening and from there, things just happened so quick. It changed really quickly.

  Theresa Wayman

  Song, Years, West Coast

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• It's not like you get up in the morning on the first day of shooting and say, 'I'm so smart today I'm going to determine every choice I make from now until a year and a half from now.' So it changes. You gain insights. The movie bucks you.

  Robert Schwentke

  Morning, Smart, Years

  "Director Robert Schwentke Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I started acting when I was 13, but it really wasn't my plan. The actual decision to become an actor was when I was 17, after I didn't act for half a year because I came to an exchange student program in the US, and I realized how much I missed it.

  Meital Dohan

  Years, Decision, Acting

  "Exclusive Song Premiere and Interview: ‘on Ya,’ Meital Feat. Sean Kingston". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2012.

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• You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

  Paul Haggis

  Would Be, Stories, Actors

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• Jason Rezaian is finally headed home. He's the correspondent for The Washington Post who was held in Iran for a year and half while U.S. diplomats, his family and his editors worked to win his release. Rezaian was one of the four Americans released from prison in Tehran in a swap for seven Iranians held in U.S. prisons.

  Renee Montagne

  Home, Winning, Iran

  "'Washington Post' Reporter Held Captive In Iran Is Freed". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 18, 2016.

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• Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so vital to the labor and civil rights of this country, and yet it was dying and didn't see it, except for some sociologist at Wayne State University who predicted that Detroit was losing population by a half-million by the end of that '60s decade, and that that trend would continue taking away its tax base.

  David Maraniss

  Country, Rights, Cities

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

  Al Yankovic

  New York, Nice, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Of course, Texas is so huge it really is empty places; people can easily drive an hour and a half to work every day, so even if they're actually living in the suburbs, it sure feels as if they're in a remote location.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, People, Empty Places

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Autism, Valleys

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Valleys, Littles

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• The perfect Sunday morning is the family at home, staying in pajamas for half the day and eating a late breakfast.

  Christine Taylor

  Morning, Home, Sunday

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I'm ready. I'm ready to bring it to the world.

  Moshe Kasher

  Book, Writing, Fiction

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• They told me I'd have to be there for the entire shooting of the movie which was two and a half months and again, I was surprised. Most movies I'd worked on before took only a day or so, so I realized this was a pretty big deal. I got to the set and was involved in a very integral way, which was a fun experience to be a part of.

  Mike Vallely

  Fun, Two, Way

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths.

  Patricia Churchland

  Thinking, Foundation, Laying Down

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very important that they come along and contribute to these things.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Mean, Japan

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• 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.

  Carice van Houten

  Responsibility, Two, Film

  "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.

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• We can't win - if we nominate someone - if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [of 2016]. We will never win that way.

  Marco Rubio

  Hate, Party, Fighting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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