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'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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Usually when you have a sequel, the character always stays the same and that's true basically of 'Rocky III,' 'IV' and 'V.' He didn't really change.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
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Senegal needs a renaissance.
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We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.
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My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.
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It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.
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Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
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The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.
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Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'.
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Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?
