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.
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features.
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.
But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.
All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
I feel like I could never walk around a film half-naked. I definitely wouldn't want to see that.
