It seemed like a joke, how much all of these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just erased your features, rubbed out anything distinctive.
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Related David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jad... FRANCINE PASCAL It was an awesome year. It may have looked easy, but it wasn't. We all put in a lot of hard work....... WHITNEY ZACHARIASON Para Amy, o amor era como drogas, álcool e pornografia: não havia limite. Cada exposiçao precisav... GILLIAN FLYNN It seemed like he was getting a lot of [expletive] for that, just being out there. It didn't seem li... CARL TRUMAN It seemed to mean so much to other people, and it sort of rubbed off on me. CHRIS STEIN So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that lo... SARAH DESSEN Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one. LORRIE MOORE It's hard for Rachel to look bad. It was a little too much for the event. She sort of looked like a ... KATRINA SZISH It seemed like we dictated pretty much the whole game and it looked like we kind of got lulled into ... JACK SKILLE Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. SOURCE UNKNOWN Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke! FRED ARMISEN I saw it, he wanted to buy something he was near to the store I went to see little far from him what... DEYTH BANGER Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie. JEANNIE WALKER It looked like it was a mile wide. I've never seen anything that scared me so bad. DALE DORMER It just seemed like we were trying too hard against Michigan. We obviously didn't come out and do wh... EMILY HOWARD It just looked mammoth. I'd never seen anything like it. LAURA HAMMER I put on a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown up, big-girl clothes never qui... GILLIAN FLYNN I wanted to slice barren into my skin. That’s how I’d stay, my insides unused. Empty and pristin... GILLIAN FLYNN A molta gente manca questo dono, la capacità di capire quando deve levarsi dai coglioni. Alla gente... GILLIAN FLYNN It had turned me into a knee-jerk suckup to authority. Mom, Dad, teachers: Whatever makes your job e... GILLIAN FLYNN You almost feel dirty for reading [Gillian Flynn's] books, like you've been forced to join your cons... TARRYN FISHER That was just like finding money on the street, really, because they were so easy to sell. People wo... JOE LEONARD They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ... ADELE ABRAMS It was weird. When I was in the attack mode, it was like everything seemed so much easier. It was go... JAY WILLIAMS I was definitely frustrated. It seemed like we worked so hard to get seven freaking points. JEFF CORTEZ I have crazy eyebrows, so it's crucial to tame them. Just like your hair, they set off your feat... NATALIE MORALES It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It'... ALESSIA CARA It was like everything in Atlanta was brighter; the ball just looked so big I couldn't believe it. I... JEFF FRANCOEUR A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ... ANUJ SOMANY There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual ... CHRIS STRINGER My sons picked up trash for 21/2 hours one day. The next day, there was so much trash, it looked lik... ANDREA COOK I don't know what happened out there. We played like a joke out there in the second half. It was not... KYLE WILLIAMS Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all ... E.M. FORSTER It just seemed like it was one of those awkward games. DESEAN JACKSON It seemed like we gave it to them. We came out at halftime and let them take it again. It was kind o... CRAIG CHAMBERS It was dramatic because of all the mud. We knew it was past the goalie, we knew it was going in, but... ASHLEY EDGAR I'd feel weird on a show where it was a bunch of dudes that are my type. I like sticking out a l... MATT MCGORRY Aloha Oukou. It looked like your soul was escaping so I put you in a tree. NATHAN REESE MAHER I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me.... ELIZABETH MITCHELL I like how the players come through and acknowledge us. They love it. (Friday), it seemed like the i... DAVE LEONARD It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. CARLA BLEY It seemed like up in Michigan they were keying on all my pitches. I didn't really do anything differ... DAN DELUCIA When we first started learning about it, it seemed like it was going to be a lot of fun and not so m... ROBERT JAMES What happened?” Albert asked. Taylor looked at Sam. Sam said nothing. He stared. First at his... MICHAEL GRANT I needed to witness what it looked like when you eventually stopped asking questions and just starte... HANNAH BRENCHER Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much
Like something with no living of its own. ELIZABETH JENNINGS I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own. ELIZABETH JENNINGS Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT It was hard, I love coming into the gym every day, but it is hard coming in every day and working yo... JENNIFER MATTHEWS Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, ... HEATHER MORRIS I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like... THOMAS SANGSTER We just didn't have it tonight. It just seemed like we came out tired. It seems like we don't bring ... STEPHEN JACKSON I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, ... DAN ANDERSON I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much ... BETTY FORD It seemed like a crazy question to ask at first, but then when we thought about how much storage cap... BRAD HUSICK She looked all around. It was so strange to feel trapped in the middle of so much open space. But th... CHRIS KURTZ This world is a joke, and I'm in it OLIWAH GOUDEE The show was really funny and charming, ... And I loved how it seemed like it was just thrown togeth... DAV PILKEY They are out of their minds. The driver was outside in our parking lot and it looked like he just di... LISA GUARENTE It just kind of seemed like there were good opportunities to be had out there. It was kind of sloppy... CURTIS SANFORD My first day here, just like my first day at Alabama, I went and got the record books and looked it ... SHAUN ALEXANDER Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrumen... GLORIA ESTEFAN I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it ... RACHAEL TAYLOR It looked like a seizure. But he didn't move at all anymore. He was just laying there. DWAINE CARPENTER That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we s... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Gray and Mike, they were just hitting shot after shot. It just seemed like it was a two-man show, li... D.J. STRAWBERRY I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own. ELIZABETH JENNINGS I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tear... LUCY CHRISTOPHER We didn't give up a lot of shots, but it seemed like when we did it was a breakdown an odd-man ru... SCOTT CLEMMENSEN We didn't give up a lot of shots, but it seemed like when we did it was a breakdown _ an odd-man rus... SCOTT CLEMMENSEN A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each... DAVE FINKEL We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy... E. LOCKHART I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried... FANTASIA BARRINO I helped out with things on the ground. But my son was climbing on the roof and doing all of the har... WILLIAM SHANER Our kids work hard on defense. We left this field last night at 6:50 p.m., and if you looked at your... DARRELL BUTLER It may not have looked like it was close, but all of the matches were really close. We were tough al... BASIL MIKE We watched so much on the news and it looked like everything down there was pretty badly botched up. RICHARD LINDSAY To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderf... SOPHIA WHITTEMORE That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away s... DENIS JOHNSON We have so many guys who can make plays. We worked on getting a hard outside move because they like ... BRAYLON EDWARDS Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list... THOMAS HARRIS Probably the biggest bring-down in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it... CASS ELLIOT A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart i... DAVID NICHOLLS The girl clones at Singer Grove were just like the ones in Texas; they knocked themselves out to be ... E.L. KONIGSBURG When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like w... WATKIN TUDOR JONES It's a tremendous accomplishment, it says a lot about how hard these girls work around. To maintain ... RYAN SULLIVAN The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless ch... CHARLIE SHEEN It seemed like that inning we were able to break it open with everyone hitting the ball so hard. JOE HIGGINS We just kept gutting it out. It seemed like we lost it two or three times. MIKE D'ANTONI It seemed like the knowledge base was a lot deeper than it had been, ... The system seemed to be wel... MICHAEL SHERIDAN It just seemed like there were more questions this time. It was just simply a reinforcement of what ... JOHN O'CONNOR All day today there was so much smoke it was like nighttime. DEAN DILLARD It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It l... LEMONY SNICKET I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but t... GILLIAN FLYNN We were doing so much with them already. It seemed like the most logical step. MICHELE QUINN Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work. J.K. ROWLING The MO was perfect, so it seemed like the same person. DETECTIVE SAM BAILEY It just seemed like a small move to me that reaches much further as a movie. [Acting like a playboy]... 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GILLIAN FLYNN I've had the blues for twenty-four years. GILLIAN FLYNN I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? ... GILLIAN FLYNN The Days were a clan that mighta lived long But Ben Day’s head got screwed on wrong That... GILLIAN FLYNN Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed ... GILLIAN FLYNN You think you know the answer, you’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix yo... GILLIAN FLYNN Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively. GILLIAN FLYNN I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did ... GILLIAN FLYNN I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite. GILLIAN FLYNN There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster ... GILLIAN FLYNN Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it. GILLIAN FLYNN Coffee goes great with sudden death. GILLIAN FLYNN Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one. GILLIAN FLYNN I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone. GILLIAN FLYNN I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a bett... GILLIAN FLYNN It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay,... GILLIAN FLYNN I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and... GILLIAN FLYNN I like the idea that people who see 'Gone Girl' are possibly going to come out with incredib... GILLIAN FLYNN I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' GILLIAN FLYNN A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off. GILLIAN FLYNN You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation... GILLIAN FLYNN I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don... GILLIAN FLYNN He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better. GILLIAN FLYNN I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in. GILLIAN FLYNN Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all wo... GILLIAN FLYNN I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the othe... GILLIAN FLYNN I'm the bitch who makes you a man. GILLIAN FLYNN It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figu... GILLIAN FLYNN Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love... GILLIAN FLYNN It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked. 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GILLIAN FLYNN Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with. GILLIAN FLYNN The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue. GILLIAN FLYNN Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of... GILLIAN FLYNN Depression to me is urine yellow. Washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss. GILLIAN FLYNN I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comf... GILLIAN FLYNN See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was. GILLIAN FLYNN I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earn... GILLIAN FLYNN I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spi... GILLIAN FLYNN I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbin... GILLIAN FLYNN I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s becau... GILLIAN FLYNN I'm definitely much more of a beach bunny. I prefer the sun over the snow. GILLIAN ZINSER I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-... GILLIAN JACOBS A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics. GILLIAN JACOBS Just as sure as each knot on a fisherman's net does not physically connect so far as each knot forms... GILLIAN DUCE Love reached across space and time to find you. You are the smile of a million stars. GILLIAN DUCE I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that wa... GILLIAN JACOBS I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seb... GILLIAN JACOBS Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that... GILLIAN ANDERSON Feeling the anguish does not make you weak, but conceding and hiding from it makes a coward. GILLIAN DUCE I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other. GILLIAN ANDERSON We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive! GILLIAN ANDERSON Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in percept... GILLIAN ANDERSON I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity,... GILLIAN ANDERSON There is a difference between being listened to and being heard. GILLIAN ANDERSON People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she i... GILLIAN ANDERSON I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know... GILLIAN ANDERSON We can only make ourselves the victim. GILLIAN ANDERSON It is not a matter of being fearless. 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