Quotes with half-there

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  • Anne McCaffrey I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Bruce Feirstein I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • John Donne I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Ang Lee I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bruce Willis I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • King Henry IV of France I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
    Original: Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches.
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  • Stephen Hawking I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
    Interview ABC News 7 June 2010
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Gloria Steinem I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one thing and one thing only, and that was to be the champion, and I wasn't going to let anybody stand in my way. I think there was one guy that had a problem with that, and that was Undertaker.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Anna Freud I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Anne Perry I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ellen DeGeneres I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, ''Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.''
    Ellen DeGeneres
    American comedian, actress, writer, and producer (1958 - )
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  • Busy Philipps I was in New York and I went to a meatball shop with my friend and there was paparazzi there and I thought, 'How did you know that someone was gonna come to this meatball shop?' But I was pregnant and I wanted a meatball sub and let me tell you, it was delicious.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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