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• I’m going out, remember?” I prodded. “And I’m going to drink too much, which makes me horny. Don’t forget to take your vitamins, ace.

  Sylvia Day

  Horny, Going Out, Too Much

  Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.72, Penguin

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• So I'm an ace?' Will grinned. 'I'm flattered Halt, flattered. I had no idea you regarded me so highly.' Halt gave him a long-suffering look. 'I might have been more accurate to say a joker.' Whatever you say.

  John Flanagan

  Ideas, Long, Suffering

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• I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.

  Jennifer Egan

  Thinking, Who I Am

  "A life in writing: Jennifer Egan" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2011.

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• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  Karen O

  Bass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything to me, take everything away, put me in prison, but I will know [her] when we are old.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Joy, Prison, Pleasure

  1987 In the Skin of a Lion,'Remorse'.

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• When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous.

  Derren Brown

  Real, Hands, Magic

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• I still think Brooke Shields is aces. She's really smart, interesting, doesn't feel that her time is more valuable than anyone else's. Really hardworking. And I knew that if she was the star of the show, it's going to be a good experience. And it was.

  Judd Nelson

  Stars, Smart, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heartbreak, Letting Go, Pain

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• Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Hard Work, School, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.

  Billy Bishop

  Military, Fighting, Flying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really think my fun personality is my ace in the hole. I will never claim to be the most beautiful or most talented queen, because I can think of many queens who fit that description. However, it's my "charisma" that takes me to a higher level in my drag!

  Manila Luzon

  Beautiful, Queens, Fun

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.

  Jennie Finch

  Husband, Boys, Two

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• My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

  Susan Orlean

  Birthday, Calendars, Records

  "Birthday Alert" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 14, 2011.

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• A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  War, Fall, Two

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• I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Dark, Careers

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• I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].

  Theophilus London

  Song, Hip Hop, Bass

  Source: www.elle.com

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• But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children.

  Lorene Cary

  Memories, Children, Sharks

  Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.127, Vintage

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• This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.

  Cole Porter

  Trying, Holes, Propose

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• Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.

  Paul Frank Baer

  Men, Reform, Four

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• [ Being director] is really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if you ace the audition. It's just about getting to know people, not about who's a better actor a lot of the time. It's about who fits that particular suit, you know?

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Suits You, People, Auditions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

  William Ernest Henley

  Sweet, Strong, Dark

  William Ernest Henley, “Before”

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• I wanted to go in a different direction, artistically. But having somebody like Terry[Crews] in it was your ace in the hole. That makes it very strong, so I definitely had to jump in with both feet.

  Ice Cube

  Strong, Feet, Different

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• My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Brother, Hero, Writing

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• Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.

  Nick Carter

  Boys, Sound, Kind

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• I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

  Dimebag Darrell

  School, Kissing, Faces

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