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• My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  New York, Freedom, Father

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• I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.

  Maria Sharapova

  Thinking, People, Rooms

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• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  Walter Scott

  Tree, Fruit, Suits

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott”, p.380

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• Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Needs

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• Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hair, Blue, Jeans

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• I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called Afterthought, and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Girl, Fun, Writing

  "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, EARTHSEED and NBC’s AFTERTHOUGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.

  Julia Roberts

  Girl, Broads, Chicks

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• The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

  Mike Pence

  Strong, Government, Uncharted Waters

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

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• I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

  Danica Patrick

  Feet, Clothes, Wish

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• I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Animal, Play, Feet

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• Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

  Jo Nesbo

  Museums, Water, House

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• From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Race, Years

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

  Will Smith

  Years, Goofy, My Sister

  "Hitch - Will Smith Q&A" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Mountain, Reasonable

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• A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Flower, Gay

  Edgar Allan Poe (2009). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.314, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

  Helen Fisher

  Size, Too Short, Fats

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• There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

  Martin Filler

  Challenges, Littles, Building

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• Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Anniversary

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Girl, School, Mean

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 22, 2010.

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• To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Bird, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1987). “Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

  Ken Venturi

  Retirement, Hero, Giving

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• Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

  Uma Thurman

  Eye, Blue, Average

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

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• Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

  Bram Stoker

  Horse, Light, Sky

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.23, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Feet, Long

  "Kristen Stewart Interview Twilight". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 9, 2008.

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• For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

  Liam Neeson

  Successful, Games, Names

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