Quotes with half-there

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  • Gregory Nunn A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Bradley Whitford Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Bill Dedman About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Bill Bryson Above all, what is oddest to the outsider is that Aborigines just aren't there.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Walter Savage Landor Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Bill Gross Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Act well your part; there all honor lies.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Robert Half Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Glenda Jackson Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Bill Skarsgard Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Albert Pike Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William James Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Brandon Lee Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Brendan Gleeson Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bernard Hill Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.
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  • George F. Will Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • A. D. Hope Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:
    He took her in his arms and there and then
    Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind,
    Began in joy to found the breed of men.
    Imperial Adam (l. 25-28)
    A. D. Hope
    Australian poet and essayist (1907 - 2000)
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