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• I've done the gay, over-the-top guy. I want to jump into another show where I wear pants for the majority of the time.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Gay, Guy, Majority

  "THE LEADING MEN: Angel of Music". Interview with Wayman Wong, www.playbill.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me.

  Stefano Pilati

  Attitude, Luxury, Chic

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• People just didn't write songs that were so directly emotional in those days. They still don't. Part of Hank's [Williams] thing was that he was opening up about relationships between men and women in ways that nobody else did, and I think that's something that made him stand out so much. His songs are just so straightforward about these really deep feelings that are universal, but they're so hard to write about without sounding sappy or over the top. You think of men in that era - they didn't express themselves that way.

  Michael McCaul

  Song, Writing, Men

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• I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want —” “— to worry or frighten them?” said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.

  J. K. Rowling

  Moon, Thinking, Worry

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• Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

  Stephen King

  Life, Lying, Fiction

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

  Sarah Palin

  Believe, Self, Ebay

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stories, Use, Nonfiction

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• When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.

  Moby

  Song, Air, Hands

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• Every time you see a black romance it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

  Bernie Mac

  Strong, Sex, Romance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  Queen Latifah

  New York, Kids, Rocks

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Song, People, Bollywood

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• I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Voice, Alcohol, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!

  Katherine Jenkins

  Love, Mcdonalds, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, I live a crazy, exciting, whatever life, but I do think it's quite relatable because it has to be - I'm just a girl from St Louis, Missouri that has lived life like anyone else. There are things that are crazy and over the top, but the basic thread is my family, my career, trying to live and pursuing my dreams.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Girl, Dream, Crazy

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• When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

  Todd Solondz

  Real, People, Want

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Wall, Thinking, Special

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• Well, I should like a plan that doesn’t result in the death of my heir. (Eli) Would a good maiming be considered over-the-top? (Varyk)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heirs, Results, Should

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones

  Lisa Kleypas

  Girl, Eight, Years

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• Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Crazy, Order

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Taken, Hands

  "The Rum Diary". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1998.

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• Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.

  Johnny Weir

  Beautiful, Costumes, Skating

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• I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Shy, Difficult Times, Used

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• I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Views, Paris, Honor

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• I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Care, Crowds

  "How to Cash In on Your Passion". Interview with Rich Brooks, www.fastcompany.com. October 12, 2009.

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• Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Letting Go, Thinking, Ridiculous

  "Beauty and style secrets from our favourite French icons". www.stylist.co.uk.

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