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• He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Doors, Fur

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• Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mom, Thinking, Dust

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• I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more people don't appreciate what's on their doorstep.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  People, Appreciate, Sides

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary--and terrible elegant.

  Muriel Barbery

  Real, Simple, Feelings

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• When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.

  Marina Abramovic

  Baby, Princess, Boys

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• The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.

  Newt Gingrich

  Christian, Media, News

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• The issues which mattered to me as an activist, mainly things like prison reform and AIDS, have less of a chance of getting covered on my show than things I don't have a personal interest in. It's because I don't trust my antenna about being a good storyteller on those subjects, because I know a lot and therefore lose touch with what the average person might find interesting about them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Average, Issues, Interesting

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.

  Grimes

  Girl, Fun, Crazy

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• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Song, Stupid, Home

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• I believe eating well, and with people you love, is about feeding your body, heart, and soul - I used juicing to ensure I covered my nutritional bases every day, and as a tool to restore inner balance if my body needed a break from too much indulgence.

  Salma Hayek

  Believe, Heart, Love Is

  Eric Helms, Amely Greeven, Salma Hayek (2014). “The Juice Generation: 100 Recipes for Fresh Juices and Superfood Smoothies”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.

  Edith Head

  Beautiful, Looks, Legs

  Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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• People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go 'oh yeah you look small.' It kind of ruins the mystique.

  Hulk Hogan

  Covered Up, People, Looks

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• My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sick, Kitchen, Benches

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

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• For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Want, Small Business, Unemployed

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• Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.

  Joe Klein

  Party, Men, Years

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• My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Safety Pins, Stylist, Uniforms

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• Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

  Paloma Faith

  Artist, Covered Up, Video

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• It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Ideas, Fake

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• Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

  Cecil Beaton

  Fashion, Style, Needs

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

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• The [2012 covers album] 2120 [South Michigan Ave.] was different. We covered a lot of classics there. But most of the time when we did it I always prided myself on digging up obscure songs that no one knew of.

  George Thorogood

  Song, Different, Albums

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Wind, Faces

  "Planet Of The Apes : Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". www.cinema.com.

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• We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Victory, Steel, Fool

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is even more evident now, is that the way we share information among ourselves as American citizens has been radically transformed. The line between news and entertainment has almost dissolved, where ratings now have a big impact on what kinds of stories are covered and not stories.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Impact, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

  Jean Cocteau

  Reality, Habit, Revealing

  "Le Mystère Laïc". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1928.

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• My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of African-American history between 1513 and 2013. We covered half a millennium, and it's amazing.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, African American, Stories

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