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119 quotesIf you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Acting and Actors
Katharine Hepburn
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The half is greater than the whole.
Appreciation
Hesiod
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Experience
Napoleon Hill
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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning
Action
Horace
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Action
Horace
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One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
Sacrifice
Sidney Howard
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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Promises
Edgar Watson Howe
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Loving is half of believing.
Belief
Victor Hugo
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
People
Leigh Hunt
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Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
Literature
Dean William R. Inge
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Half my life is an act of revision.
Life and Living
John Irving
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Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
Luck
Douglas William Jerrold
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Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.
Giving
Dave Johnson
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No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Cooperation
Samuel Johnson
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In a hospital, half of the patients get better food than at home.
Hospitals
Gerhard Kocher
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An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Karl Kraus
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He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
Sleep
Karl Kraus
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The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.
Simplicity
Bruce Lee
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One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
Dreams
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Acting and Actors
Marcel Marceau
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Writers and Writing
Groucho Marx
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A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
Nuns
H. L. Mencken
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The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
Listening
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
Food and Eating
Charles De Montesquieu
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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
Fear
James Northcote
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun