I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.
There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.
Honey will wipe the floor with you." His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. "I know.
Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.
Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.
I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart.
Very few people have the nerve to grab their dreams. Most that you meet will be half-images or carbon copies of who they really want to be.
Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.
After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze my eggs.
I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.
It is always exciting when you find someone who is really enthusiastic about being half of a comedy team.
I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.
