Half Hours Quotes - Page 2

• My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

  Jessica Valenti

  Party, Commitment, College

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• I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.

  Amanda Hocking

  Dog, Book, Mind

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• You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

  Sharon Gless

  Drama, Half, Comedy

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• I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.

  Lauren Graham

  Thinking, Cameras, Half

  "It's Here: Lauren Graham's Final Gilmore Girls Interview". Interview with Michael Ausiello, www.tvguide.com. May 7, 2007.

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• I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

  Mark Feuerstein

  Half, Saving, Quiet

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• So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

  Jackie Cooper

  People, Effort, Different

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• Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!

  Rupert Friend

  Growing Up, Home, California

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

  Thomas Friedman

  Wife, Car, Laptops

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• I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

  Charles S. Dutton

  Couple, Writing, Hbo

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• I work out two, two and a half hours a day.

  Henry Cavill

  Two, Work Out, Half

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• My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Morning, Giving, House

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• I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Writing, Average, United States

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• Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Rocks, House, Half

  "Jason Sudeikis Checks in: 'I'm a Lefty From Kansas!'". Interview with Hampton Stevens, www.espn.com. August 19, 2008.

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• I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Thinking, Here I Am

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

  Walter Cronkite

  Workout, Sadness, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.

  Goran Visnjic

  Jobs, Taken, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.

  Enrico Fermi

  Epic, People, Feelings

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• u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

  Glenn Gould

  Symphony, Eight, Half

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• The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dark, House, Null

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 60, 2006.

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• A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Half, Hours

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• I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

  Sela Ward

  Half, Scripts, Hours

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• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  Aaron Tveit

  Two, Half, Lines

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• Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.

  Christopher Atkins

  Running, Islands, Guarantees That

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Korea, Time Zones

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• I know that my job is to perform, it wouldn't be a very interesting show if I just came out one day and said, "I'm going to sit here in a ball and rock back and forth. And won't you join me for a half hour of sadness."

  Jon Stewart

  Jobs, Sadness, Rocks

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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