My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career with work in the 19th century.
I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.
No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.
I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.
I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things.
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.
For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.
