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• Some day I'll write a book and call it 'How I Got the Nickname Pumpsie' and sell it for one dollar, and if everybody who ever asked me that question buys the book, I'll be a millionaire.

  Pumpsie Green

  Book, Writing, Dollars

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• I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname.

  Eva Longoria

  Mean, Dark, Ugly Duckling

  "The Sentinel - Eva Longoria interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.

  Gena Showalter

  School, Jelly, Freckles

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.106, Harlequin

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• The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

  Richelle Mead

  Names, People, Serious

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.86, Penguin

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• Ah. Yeah, that would be better. Have you ever driven a bus?" Caine shook his head. "No, I have not." "Strangely enough," Sam said, remembering the long ago moment of terror and competence that had earned him the nicknames School Bus Sam, "I have.

  Michael Grant

  School, Long Ago, Would Be

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• All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

  Mamie Gummer

  Mother, Daughter, Husband

  "Emily Owens, M.D. Star Mamie Gummer Reveals Her Mom's (Meryl Streep!) Movies That Make Her Laugh, Cry, and Watch Again and Again". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I've been called other things too, and some of them uncomplimentary and sexist like the 'Queen of Sprawl', 'Attila the Hen,' 'The Mom who runs Mississauga' and the 'Mississauga Rattler', so it's little wonder that my favourite nickname is Hurricane Hazel.

  Hazel McCallion

  Mom, Running, Queens

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• Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

  Thomas Carlyle

  Political, Economics, Economy

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• Cotton balls is an example of something I would buy, but not want to have as a nickname. Cinnamon buns, on the other hand, is something I would buy and want to have as a nickname. 'Are you Cinnamon Buns?' 'You bet your sweet ass I am.'

  Demetri Martin

  Sweet, Hands, Balls

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• They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname.

  Gabriel Ba

  Names, People, Calling

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth

  Thom Yorke

  School, Missing, Teeth

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• Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."

  John Richard Green

  People, Hocus Pocus, Attorney

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• A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

  Stephen Fry

  Cousin, Funny Life, Humorous

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• I play Hank Hansen, a real guy. Youd be amazed at how much information they have on this guy: personality traits, nicknames, favorite color, you name it.

  Paul Walker

  Real, Color, Play

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• My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye

  Thom Yorke

  School, Eye, Lazy

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• My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.

  Patrick Schwarzenegger

  Mother, Titles

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• Jung Min made my nickname. An animal called otter. At first I didn't know what exactly an otter was. So I didn't like it and said I didn't look like an otter. But one day, one of our fans upload its picture. It looked so cute. Since then, I've liked it.

  Heo Young-saeng

  Cute, Animal, Otters

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• I'm wondering if the crew [from'The Hateful Eight'] had some sort of nickname for me. I am blanking at anything truly funny, so I'll just say, 'No Phone Quentin'.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Eight, Phones, Hateful

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

  Tinie Tempah

  Artist, Style, Aliases

  "One last thing... Tinie Tempah". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• ... when your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse.

  Terry Pratchett

  Grateful, Names, Black

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• Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'

  Joe Klein

  Powerful, Boys, Two

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• Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right.

  Louis Armstrong

  Player, Men, Thinking

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.

  Bella Heathcote

  Australia, People, Calling

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Stevie Wonder used to come the ball games and they would have a guy sitting with him. And the guy would be holding on to his arm, telling him what's going on, and he would say, "Hey, the big chocolate guy just put down a thunder dunk. The chocolate guy with another monster dunk." And Stevie Wonder actually gave me the nickname Chocolate Thunder.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Games, Guy, Chocolate

  "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.

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• I was a big Magic Johnson fan. And I guess people who knew that gave a name that... In that vein. I tried to play like him.

  Tim Duncan

  Play, People, Magic

  Interview with Dan Patrick (1998), as quoted in "Tim Duncan was never really impressed by Michael Jordan" by Alonzo Warond, fadeawayworld.com. August 5, 2016.

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