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Jeanette MacDonald

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WINSTON CHURCHILL My theory was that they all saw me do it and if Andy Mac could do it ...' Macdonald said.
DANNY WAY I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. An...
OLIVER REED [George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.
CLARENCE DARROW Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing,”
George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
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LARRY MURPHY Beckett started the Hummer and texted Eve:
Tak4e Ur Cloth3s OFF Im on my qway
Her reply ca...
DEBRA ANASTASIA I got a good start, and Gunnar (Jeanette) [in the team car] did his job by keeping everyone behind m...
DAVID BRABHAM I gotta give Mike (MacDonald) credit because they played motivated basketball from the beginning.
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NANCY FRIDAY Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I wasn't at the game myself, so I've had to speak Roy [Aitken] and Kevin [MacDonald] who were in cha...
DAVID O'LEARY Since Im going to beat her again the 3rd time ....may opponent in scrabble asked me- Have you been r...
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GORE VIDAL I'm close to coach MacDonald, and he became more of a friend than anything. I'm going to take a few ...
CORY MAGEE MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of though...
WINSTON CHURCHILL MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of though...
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MITCH HEDBERG I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
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DEMI MOORE If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should...
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CHRIS MURRAY I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.
GEORGE MACDONALD With every morn my life afresh must break
The crust of self, gathered about me fresh;
That...
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RAINBOW ROWELL I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for p...
KEIR GILCHRIST I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent w...
KEVIN ZEGERS There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.
DEMI MOORE Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process...
DAVID NICHOLLS I don’t think I’m any good at this. Boy–girl. Person–person. I don’t trust anybody. Not an...
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ROBERT B. PARKER I don't really focus on these things - on what tags are given to me or what people think of me o...
VIRAT KOHLI If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different pr...
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MIKE MILLER On the phone people will say, 'You must be 200, 300 pounds - how do you get on elevators? I just put...
ARNOLD CARBONE My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good th...
VIRAT KOHLI Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty
HERODOTUS I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I m...
ALESSANDRA TORRESANI She's going to get you those strikeouts and the good thing is that she's not going to walk a bunch, ...
JAMIE RICHARDSON George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes m...
VIRGINIA HENLEY I guess it's fitting it's against them. There was a time early last year where you could see us (him...
JASON GUY The doctor brushed past her and gestured at the holographic image that jutted from the net-screen. "...
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DERRICK POPE So, tell me this: suppose you manage to kidnap her again and take her off to the mall. While you're ...
RICHELLE MEAD My boss is gracious enough to give me a week off to work this tournament.
CHRIS FLINT I would definitely trade clothes with Lucy Hale. Her fashion sense is right on point, and I feel lik...
OLIVIA HOLT I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
JACK HANDEY It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer...
NAOMI WATTS We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON I don't know what I'm going to do next year. I'm thinking I might play or take a year off to ease th...
AMANDA WEBER Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous....
BILLY WILDER I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER You should dress her better, you know."

"I'm not interested in putting clothes on...
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NIGELLA LAWSON Yes Im young,We Belong,Love Is Sung,By the peaceful Song...Listen Please, You'll fall to your knees,...
NOT YER TYPICAL DORK That's it. Fate is a fickle whore. We're not going. Take your clothes off and get back in my bed.
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STOCKWELL DAY I don't like to take my clothes off.
DEMI MOORE Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit...
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MARK KRIKORIAN I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me...
LARRY BIRD Im hoping that shell talk after the ride about her experiences and the foundation a bit.
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DOUG KUPPER She grabbed all her clothes from her wardrobe and flung them across the room, screaming her head off...
CECELIA AHERN We're really trying to get our screen-game going again. And Kevin is a big part of that.
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JEANETTE WINTERSON The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like...
JEANETTE WINTERSON It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
JEANETTE WINTERSON If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hangi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You are here and it hurts and the world feels impossibly heavy and you are shouting bargains at the ...
JEANETTE LEBLANC It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took yo...
JEANETTE WINTERSON History is a madman's museum.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting ol...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close...
JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I broke his Bible box into bits and lit a fire and laid his body beside it and felt where the bones ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON There are two questions: where have you come from, and where are you going? But the brain doesn't ha...
JEANETTE WINTERSON moss that is concentrating on being green.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet,’ said Spike, ‘made of water, entirely of water, where every solid thing is i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women are just planets that attract the wrong species.
JEANETTE WINTERSON She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I kissed her and forgot death.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet called Echo. It doesn’t exist. It’s like those ghost-ships at sea, the sails ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guaran...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. I...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.' JEANETTE WINTERSON Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not displ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Love is an intervention.
Why do we not choose it?” (205)
JEANETTE WINTERSON Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself.
I was up to my chin when the sho...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Loneliness isn’t about being by yourself. That’s fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. L...
JEANETTE WINTERSON …only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy,...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON