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• If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.

  Tom Hardy

  Beautiful, White, Long

  "Tom Hardy: the rake's progress" by Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2010.

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• Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.

  James Cook

  Believe, Government, Giving

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• I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Baby, Blood, Voice

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• I come from a long line of Sinners like me

  Eric Church

  Long, Lines, Like Me

  Song: Sinners Like Me, Album: Sinners Like Me, 2006

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• My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Mother, Father, Heart

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.25, Random House

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• At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Character, Long, Shapes

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• I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

  Sam Wyly

  Writing, Long, People

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• I come from a long line of women who like shoes to a fault.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Shoes, Long, Lines

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.

  Adrienne Rich

  Thinking, Bridges, Space

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.

  Gail Sheehy

  Long, Criminals, Lines

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

  Colin Quinn

  Thinking, Long, Guy

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• But down in Florida in the early voting, there were computer glitches, confusing ballots, long lines and chaos. And when President Bush heard about this, he said, 'Mission accomplished!'

  David Letterman

  Florida, Long, Voting

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• As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Girl, Character, People

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2006.

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• I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

  Henry Rollins

  Past, Long, Directors

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• I think people need to live their lives the way they want to, but I'm pretty confident in the fact that I love girls. I've got a long line of girls who could testify that I am not gay.

  Kenny Chesney

  Girl, Gay, Thinking

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• The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.

  John Linder

  Long, Liberty, World

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• Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Destiny, Blood, Long

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• I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.

  Wesley Snipes

  Thinking, Long, Lines

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• My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

  Debra Winger

  Children, Grandmother, Long

  "Why I quit Hollywood" by Garth Pearce, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2002.

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• If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has passed on its way to us, we should probably become fatalists in face of the apparently overwhelming evidence that there is nothing in us that has not come to us from, or at least through, the Family. Family portrait galleries are a striking confirmation of the persistence of characteristics which ultimately govern the fortunes of successive generations.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Persistence, Long, Parent

  Helen Bosanquet, Bernard Bosanquet (1996). “Helen and Bernard Bosanquet: Works on economics & social welfare: the philosophy of the state and the practice of welfare”

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• I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.

  Joan Frank

  Coffee, Eye, Night

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• I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mother, Long, Lines

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.17, Penguin

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• 'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

  Thomas Sowell

  Long, Lines, Global Warming

  "Global Warming Swindle". www.creators.com. March 14, 2007.

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• I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Rocks, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

  Cole Younger

  Long, People, Peculiar

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