Half Quotes (page 16)
![Alexander Dumas quote: "Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art,..."](/pic/194014/600x316/quotation-alexander-dumas-infatuated-half-through-conceit-half-through.jpg)
![George Dennison Prentice quote: "Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and..."](/pic/184317/600x316/quotation-george-dennison-prentice-some-people-use-one-half-their.jpg)
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.
Kathryn Stockett
![Pete McCloskey quote: "My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives,..."](/pic/177934/600x316/quotation-pete-mccloskey-my-wife-and-i-have-spent-half-our-lives-half.jpg)
![Quiara Alegria Hudes quote: "I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways,..."](/pic/176874/600x316/quotation-quiara-alegria-hudes-im-half-puerto-rican-and-half-jewish-and.jpg)
Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'
Tom Hooper