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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.


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OSCAR LEVANT When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find the genuine tinsel underneath.
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WILLIAM GODWIN Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.
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KELLY JONES I felt I was in a sparkling, tinsel-lined, successful box-office career-rut.
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LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob ...
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JOE HEIMLICH This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble...
FRANK MCKIBBEN The thing about working in Hollywood is that, at some point, you really get tired of hearing how god...
JOHN RIDLEY Let Christmas not become a thing Merely of merchant's trafficking, Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath ...
MADELINE MORSE Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exqu...
VERA NAZARIAN There's the real and the genuine, and there's the phony.
BENNY HINN I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought...
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KIM DOTCOM Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
OSCAR WILDE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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As we wave our goodbyes,
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