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• Why you in a dark hole, Astrid? Did you fall? (Simi) We’re hiding Simi. (Astrid) Hiding? From what? (Simi) Thanatos. (Astrid) Pfft. Why you hiding from that loser? He wouldn’t even make good barbecue. Barely take the edge off my peckishness. Hmmm…How come there’s no food here? (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Dark, Loser

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• But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Unfriendly, Knows, Picks

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.106, Penguin

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• He cut her off with brutal precision. "And one last thing." His eyes flicked toward the door, through which Jace, Alec, and Isabelle had disappeared. "Keep in mind that when your mother fled from the Shadow World, it wasn't the monsters she was hiding from. Not the warlocks, the wolf-men, the Fair Folk, not even the demons themselves. It was them. It was the Shadowhunters.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Eye, Cutting

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll do a deal with you McFarlane," he said. "You can exist. And you can even have coffee. But if you raise your voice or make any sudden movements, I shall die. And that'll show you." Seb shrugged in return, hiding how pleased he was pretty badly. "Fair enough.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Coffee, Voice, Movement

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Running, Flying, Forget

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.198, Macmillan

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• Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

  Walker Percy

  Losing, Losing Hope

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, People, May

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.92, Dial Press

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• I spent much of my life hiding.

  Kevyn Aucoin

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• Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Keeping Secrets, Wish, Kept Secrets

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• I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

  Joanne Harris

  Feelings, Incapable

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• As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Long, People, Veils

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• What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

  Salma Hayek

  Expression, Acting, Hiding Place

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• Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

  Jonathan Katz

  Couple, Years, Shy

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• You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

  Anna Kendrick

  Football, Teenager, Silly

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• I believe in celebrating the female figure and embracing what we've been given, not hiding that.

  Miranda Kerr

  Believe, Female, Helpful

  "Miranda Kerr: face of a goddess, figure of an Angel, wife of an elf". Interview with Miranda Collinge, www.esquire.com. May 1, 2013.

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• Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

  Willem de Kooning

  Hype, Greek, Style

  1949 'A Desperate View', lecture given in NewYork.

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• I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding.

  Hugh Laurie

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Hugh Laurie Puts Blues In The House". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 18, 2013.

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• I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Past, Way, Photographer

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• When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Beautiful, People, Want

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• An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Success, Beautiful

  "'Careerism and vanity: Sins of the Church'". Vatican Insider Interview, www.lastampa.it. February 24, 2012.

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• There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

  Pearl Bailey

  Wise, Memories, Women

  Pearl Bailey (1976). “Hurry up, America, & spit”, Harcourt

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• We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Home, Media, Hands

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• The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Cosmos, Literature

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

  Phil Collins

  Years, Hotel Lobby, Half

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• Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.

  Billy Connolly

  Dark, People, Want

  "My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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