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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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• 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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• '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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• Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

  Ricky Gervais

  Funny, Reading, People

  "Fictional character: David Brent". TV Series "The Office", 2001-2003.

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• ...Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time!

  Mark M. Ford

  Gratitude, Appreciate, Want

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• We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Men, Thinking, Capability

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• We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator ["Bernie"] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.

  Jeff Merkley

  Party, Winning, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You have to be flexible enough to realize that, over the course of making a film for three and a half years, things are going to slightly change and drift, as you work out solutions to each problem as they come up.

  Duncan Jones

  Years, Work Out, Three

  Source: collider.com

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• If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Secret, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Daughter, Son, Men

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Boxing, Trying

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make it so riveting that one might be compelled to watch this for a full half-hour? So I began researching, and I came across a series of articles from the year 1940 about Gypsy in Life magazine.

  Karen Abbott

  Cousin, Simple, Thinking

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

  Karen Abbott

  Rose, Desire, Want

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.

  Joe Manganiello

  Two, Littles, Tiny

  "Joe Manganiello is ready for your Pee-wee Herman slash fic". Interview with Kyle Ryan, film.avclub.com. March 23, 2016.

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• Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Animal, America, Judging

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.

  Paul Haggis

  Country, War, Responsibility

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• That's half of what we do our daily lives - we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it entertaining, and we are entertainers.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Daily Life, Surroundings, Entertaining

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The worst injury I've ever seen in a fight was with Anderson Silva when his leg snapped in half.

  Jon Jones

  Fighting, Legs, Anderson Silva

  "Exclusive interview: Jon Jones talks arrest, UFC 197 bout with St. Preux". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. April 19, 2016.

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• We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.

  David Rolf

  Past, Years, Wealth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our new friends Vladimir Putin, Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump. Or that they would do so without an economic plan, a trading strategy, or a credible leader, making the average Briton's future more uncertain than any time since the Blitz.

  Brian Reade

  Marine, Average, Long

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• [Donald] Trump: he'd probably declare in Hiroshima that he'd nuke half of Asia if it would help the West to retain its control over the world. At least one would not harbor any false hopes.

  Andre Vltchek

  World, Nukes, Asia

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.

  Casey Affleck

  Math, People, Guy

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

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• Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read the novel [Anthem], and half have not read it. That is interesting.

  Jeff Britting

  Interesting, Directors, Joining

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Song, Thinking, Names

  Source: agitpropspace.org

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