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I will go wash;
And when my face is fair, you shall perceive
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I hate you.'
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"A little."
"Do you want to stop?"
"No, just go slow."
...
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN
When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I sa... MICHAEL MORIARTY
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Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul.He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century o...
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JEFF ROLEN
So what was that all about?""I think," Jace said, "that she asked if she could touch my mango....
CASSANDRA CLARE
Are you sure you want them to meet me?" she asked."Yes," he said. "I want everyone to me...
RAINBOW ROWELL
Why are you being so nice to me?' I asked her.'You know,' she said, 'when you say stuff like t...
SARAH DESSEN Do I want to know why you're so informed about spyware?" she asked.
Nikolaos gave her a c...
MOLLY RINGLE
I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be r... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY
O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to g... RUSSELL HOBAN
I remember seeing 'Aladdin' when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen... DARREN CRISS
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FREIDA PINTO
When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it ... SHIRLEY TEMPLE
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She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I coul... DARK JAR TIN ZOO
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Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ And my mom comes upstairs and she says, 'Something is wrong with you.' I wouldn't even talk. She say...
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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. ANTON CHEKHOV All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
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(Frances has gotten out of bed again and come to her parents' room...)'How can the wind have a...
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You want to beat Peter?" she asked"No," he answered
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ROB ROGERS I asked her if she wanted to go up to Napa, go around in a limo, anything, ... She just wanted to cu...
JULIAN PETERSON
A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth... MARK HADDON I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether i...
CHARLES DURNING I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a perform...
CHRISTIAN COOKE
When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness... JACK OSBOURNE When I asked her specifically, she said well, she became quite rattled and said it's a sore subject,...
EVGENIA PERETZ
You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said."There's an easy way?" I asked.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I said, I dont think so. I had an aunt and uncle here but they died 10 years ago, ... She aske...
KAREN TEMPLETON
Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is th... AYN RAND My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was rea...
BILLY HOWLE
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When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few ... STEPHEN WRIGHT
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few m... STEVEN WRIGHT I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do ...
CASSANDRA DUNN
Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do... EDDIE MURPHY My mom said I could not go to V-State. I'm independent and didn't want to go to school at home, but ...
LISA RICHARDSON We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, �... LEWIS CARROLL My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B She called me at 6 a.m. yesterday and said, 'You know what, if you had asked me, I would have told y...
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DANIELLE JACKSON
I will go wash;
And when my face is fair, you shall perceive
Whether I blush or no. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But when I come off stage, I do not want adulation, I do not want to be worshipped.
JOHN FAHEY
I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his h... NICHOLAS SPARKS I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't wa...
SARA QUIN I held her in my arms last night," he said quietly. "And when I felt her every response, I thought, ...
JOEY W. HILL
When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know."Oh, sure you know," the photogr...
SYLVIA PLATH Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years -...
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Don't you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly... BRIAN ANDREAS
I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, ... CHRISTOPHER GUEST When we get out of this, let’s go somewhere again. Me and you.”
The tension in her c...
VERONICA ROSSI Do you think you might be able to love me someday?" He asked and heard her laugh softly.
...
JASMINE DUBROFF
See, Red? When life hands you lemons, you know what you gotta do?”“Wow,” Lauren said. �...
PRISCILLA GLENN
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which
road do I take?' s... LEWIS CARROLL
if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad GEORGE GORDON BYRON
You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.She shook her head.<...
CASSANDRA CLARE
I hate you.'My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said."Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats."
A...
NEIL GAIMAN I was thrilled when she asked me to do it.
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HOWARD IKEMOTO You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
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ASHLEY WU
Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent ... 
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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter an... 
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. 
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Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts... 
If I be the first of us to die,
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For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the de... 
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb. 
I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse. 