All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all... JOHN LEE HOOKER Have you ever noticed that folks will say ‘Look, he has his mama’s eyes’ or ‘his daddy’s n... SUZIE QUINT I'm not big on the pasty because they say the pastry in the pasty can bring on indigestion. TERRY WOGAN Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER I find myself searching faces, but they all look the same. DEBBIE DECARLO i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g... DALLY SALAD I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like,... FRANK MCCOURT They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong. RALPH BAKSHI They say miracles are past. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He ... ALICE WALKER I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep... LILLIAN GORDY CARTER As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen. MICK JAGGER They can put Alice on an ice rink, and they might, say, have Alice twirl, jump or do a triple flip. CHRISTINA WETLI When I learned Japanese, they say that I sounded like a Chinese with diarrhea! CHARO The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermet... DON WINSLOW Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, bu... DIANE SETTERFIELD It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ERROL FLYNN Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.' MICHELLE PHAN Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes. RALPH KINER They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. JOHN MAYER I’ve never heard a girl say a diamond was too big.” “I just think when they get too big t... ALLIE EVERHART It's been on the front page and in the other media. People want to know. ABRAHAM TORRES Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do. ANNA HELD I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo. JASON DAY 'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of a... BRIGITTE BOISSELIER I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture. MELISSA SAGEMILLER People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is wh... NOEL COWARD I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. '... RHYS WAKEFIELD Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post. DONALD RUMSFELD I didn't get the job because I look like a lion. I got the job because I can read the words on the p... JAMES EARL JONES We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can f... ELAYNE BOOSLER I wish she had half a clue what seeing that happy face does for me. I can't quite explain it to myse... MELYSSA WINCHESTER You know how they say that you have to take action and show what you're going for in order for them ... BRENDA RODRIGUEZ They were on the same page, and it happened so fast, ... I can't tell you how happy I am. KAILEE WONG They all did a tremendous job, I can't say enough about them for what they did. They deserve all the... CHRIS HAMILTON She even has her phone number on the first page. Those sites are places where kids will talk about t... DAVE AUSDENMOORE Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reserv... TOMMY LASORDA I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's ... DARRYL PINCKNEY They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting,... ED ASNER Kids live vicariously through the lyrics. They identify with them, feel like these are their stories... AARON STERN It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They h... DOUGLAS ADAMS Cut off's are like real sadist as they watch some folks happy and disappoint the majority. People dr... PARUL WADHWA ...women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're ... MELINA MARCHETTA You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ... MITCH ALBOM Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to ... ALICE WALKER A lot of teams have put up a lot of yards rushing against them, but who's to say we're going to do t... ADAM BEDNARIK And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Preju... ROSAMUND PIKE They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We buil... ANNA LOUISE STRONG All of our like friends, like Asian, Mexicans, African-Americans, we're all like on the same page be... BRENDA RODRIGUEZ Most of them are still psychologically lost, I would say, because they say they haven't experienced ... COLIN TRAVERTZ It's like they say, you want to be an eight-man front when they run and a seven-man front when they ... RON RIVERA There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down w... KARL PILKINGTON No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, ... ANNIE DILLARD You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the medi... PATRICK CHAPPATTE They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I ... DOROTHEA DIX You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don&... SLOANE CROSLEY They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. CLINT EASTWOOD The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say. DAN PINK They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job. BRIAN CLOUGH Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. PLATO They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic. STEVEN WRIGHT They say Afghanistan is the worst country for a girl to be born. Hogwash! RULA GHANI But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's t... DAVID BLAINE They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian ... CHRISTIAN LACROIX In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions. REGGIE WATTS I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep... LILLIAN CARTER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or... IAN SOMERHALDER If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's atte... WALTER CRONKITE Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. ... ANN BRASHARES It's very insidious. They say they are studying filing sedition charges. They say they have lists, b... SHEILA CORONEL And sometimes when they look in the firethey see time going on and someone alone,but they don't say ... WILLIAM STAFFORD People can always say I don't look impressive enough, but they can't argue over how strong I am once... F.C. YEE Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they wa... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY You've got all these brilliant, talented people, and the first thing they say afterward is, 'God, am... HARRY CARAY All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make t... GERALD SCARFE That's what I want to invoke on them. This is bigger than them and it is sport and it's a chain of e... RICK SAY They looked at the videotape because of Kali, but I guess they liked the other boys. Same thing happ... WENDELL SAY Senior night games are tough. Everybody was loose the day before and before the game. But everybody ... JEFF LAW Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it. SHANNON L. ALDER Whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle, And the dirt, Just to make clear wher... CHARLES OLSON Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and... AUDREY MEADOWS They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other... PARUL WADHWA These days come and go, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON You see that girl, she looks so happy right? But inside she's dying. She's hurt and tired. Tired of ... JAYNE HIGGINS Words. Just little black marks on paper. Just sounds in the empty air. But think of the power they h... ARTHUR GORDON There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. Th... FRANK DEFORD I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV t... STEVEN COJOCARU Speaking about anthros: “Spear decided, ‘Something is wrong. When we live with our spirits, we b... MARK ANDREW RITCHIE The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. —ALICE WALKER DEMI LOVATO Dont look back in anger, I heard you say... OASIS I just looked at the tape and they kept the tight end in and they chip-blocked and all of that. But ... JULIUS PEPPERS I wouldn't say they looked tired, ... I'd say the look was more frustration. All year, we've been ki... DEXTER JACKSON It was a succession of all of these pledge things from around the state that made us stop and say ma... RICHARD GRIFFITHS The whole day and evening at juvenile hall mimics what daily life is like in a normal family, what l... DEBORAH BOTTS The custodian (Alice Casey) was coming down the hallway with a loud clunky trash can on wheels, and ... NANCY MOORE I am very happy to say I look just like my dad. But mothers always think their children are prettier... JAMES BLUNT They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
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