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We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

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• I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

  

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• As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.

  

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• My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

  

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• Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.

  

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• Being a bad guy is fun for me.

  

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• I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.

  

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• I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

  

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• I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

  

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• But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.

  

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• Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.

  

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• He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe she would keep moving away from him until the distance between them was too great to cross again in one lifetime.

  

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• The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

  

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• There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone.

  

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• Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

  

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• With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

  

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• Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

  

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• We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

  

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