Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce-suspected, animate the whole.
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RICHELLE MEAD You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth.
MICHELLE MEAD Therein is the key to this whole bowl of spaghetti.
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A memory remains just a tiny spark.
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F...
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She arched an eyebrow. “Are...
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like a bee around the queen,
like a whirling derv...
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speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
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RICHELLE MEAD Maybe I was in love, but I was still me, after all.
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understanding.
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sulphur.
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actually twelve miles from a lemon.
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SYDNEY BRENNER As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
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SYDNEY POLLACK Kubrick and I were pretty good friends.
SYDNEY POLLACK Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would re...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the ...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn'...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brookly...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you...
SYDNEY POLLACK I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I ca...
SYDNEY BRENNER For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended u...
SYDNEY POLLACK I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school...
SYDNEY BRENNER We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you k...
SYDNEY POLLACK I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begi...
SYDNEY BRENNER Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've go...
SYDNEY POLLACK What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn'...
SYDNEY POLLACK It's a standard 365-day a year thing. You have to be vigilant on animal cruelty.
SYDNEY WHITE Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germ...
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