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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon
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Writer
Degrees
Essays
Work Music Day
Alongside
Bone
Evenings
Indoor
Mostly
Season
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
Rainn Wilson
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Actor
Angst
Being Single
Comedy
Existential
Office
Percent
Style
Workplace
Show
Documentary
Great Thing
Mostly
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The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.
Emily Carr
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Artist
Canada
Decided
Despise
Honour
Resent
Men Women Woman
Consider
Essentially
Women Men Woman
Mostly
Painters
Throw
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I don't eat out much. I eat mostly home food and no carbs after 5 P.M. You are what you eat, and Sunday used to be my cheat day, when I could eat chocolate; but there are no cheats to a good body. Now, I don't give in.
Tiger Shroff
/
Home
Body
Carbs
Chocolate
Sunday
Used
Good Home Food
Good Food Body
After
Cheats
Mostly
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My approach with social media is to interact with the readers I already have. I do it mostly to procrastinate from my writing. It's an escape. It's the only socializing I get outside of my wife, and she gets sick of me.
Hugh Howey
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Author
Sick
Social Media
Escape
Interact
Mostly
Procrastinate
Readers
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All I want in life is to pet my dog and cat. After that, all I want to do is post photos of them. Mostly because they're the cutest things ever, but also because I don't have to worry about how ugly I look in the photo.
Cazzie David
/
Pet
Cat
Dog
Ugly
Worry
Photo
Mostly
Post
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I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young man, I was literally unaware of the distinctions between any of that, and I still think it's pointless.
Chris Thile
/
Mandolinist
Classical Music
Jazz
Pointless
Young Man
Classical
Distinctions
Folk
Introduced
Literally
Mostly
Unaware
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It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.
Elisha Cuthbert
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Actress
Risk
Attach
Mostly
Sign
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I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.
Jennifer Morrison
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Actress
Diet
Choices
Dinner
Eating
Eating Well
Healthy
Simple
Sushi
Vegetables
All Day
Fish
Fruits
Mostly
Sticking
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Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.
Frank Rich
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Essayist
Avoided
Bankers
Denial
Reckoning
Shareholders
Banks
Likely
Mostly
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Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.
Janet Napolitano
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Former United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
Borders
Community
Mexico
People
Worried
Border
Communities
Mostly
Spill
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In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
William Bligh
/
Governor
Advantage
Boisterous
Months
Summer
Weather
Wind
Years
Hope Good Great
Cape
Westward
Great Advantage
Mostly
Passage
Season
Winds
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Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.
Graham Hawkes
/
Marine Engineer
Space
Empty
Exploration
Fabulous
Filled
Junk
Mining
News
Space Exploration
Alien
Nearly
Colonies
Lucrative
Put
Mostly
Planetary
Promised
Sterile
Vacuum
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My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.
Cristina Henriquez
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Delaware
Engineering
Panama
Raised
Study
University
Mom Dad Born
Chemical
Dad Mom Born
Met
Mostly
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You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper... A bad guy wouldn't think of himself as bad.
Michael Wincott
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Film Actor
Be Careful
Paper
Predictable
Bad Guy
Bend
Mostly
Script
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I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.
Ellen Page
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Actress
Sustainable
Mostly
Planet
Potentially
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
Fay Wray
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Actress
Life
Enthusiastic
People
Secret
Writing
Life Love Your
Mostly
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I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.
Trieste Kelly Dunn
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Actress
Imagination
Active
Fun
Appealing
Challenging
Guns
Dangerously
Effectively
Exceptionally
Learned
Mostly
Respected
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I mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe Brown came on and sang 'I'll See You In My Dreams,' and there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
Charles Dance
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Actor
Brown
Dry
Eye
House
Tribute
Ukulele
Bought
Concert
Period
George
Saw
Joe
Sang
Mostly
Suit
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These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.
William Henry Ashley
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American Politician
Covered
Growth
Red
Species
Timber
Appear
Cedar
Colours
Composed
Entirely
Mostly
Pine
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I would say that molecular gastronomy is a field of science. I would - I would say that it's probably lumped under chemistry, maybe. Because cooking, while it has certainly biology and some physics, it's mostly chemistry.
Wylie Dufresne
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Chef
Science
Biology
Chemistry
Cooking
Physics
Science Biology Physics
Certainly
Say
Field
Lumped
Maybe
Molecular
Mostly
Some
While
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What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.
John Mahoney
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Actor
Father
Play
Scripts
Analyse
Dealing
Mostly
Script
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I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.
Wilford Brimley
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Actor
Arena
Bigger
Horse
People
Rodeo
Use
Cross
Sell
Horses
Mine
Mostly
Quarter
Raise
Some People
Thoroughbred
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Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.
Gunter Grass
/
Novelist
Different
Harm
Hurt
Lying
Oneself
Truth Is
Lies
Mostly
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In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.'
Susan Cain
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Writer
Society
Admire
Comfortable
Gregarious
Individual
Spotlight
Type
Bold
Himself
Ideal
Mostly
Putting
Value
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Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair's shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist's luck.
A. A. Gill
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Writer
Ambition
Blair
Brown
Luck
Opera
Pessimist
Shadow
Tragic
Twisted
Presbyterian
Gordon
Mostly
Poisoned
Tony
Waited
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Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.
Richard Engel
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Journalist
Cotton
Gold
Livestock
Poorest
Texas
Twice
Money Enough World
Almost Nothing
Enough Money
Exports
Import
Shaped
Mostly
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I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.
Al Walser
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Musical Artist
Jobs
Commercial Music
Grammy
People
Relate
Vote
Music Always People
Commercial
Music People Always
Mostly
Musicians
Themselves
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When I've been working especially long hours, I make a point to spend an extra hour or two without my phone, doing something my children choose. They love the park or pool time, but mostly, they love my undivided attention.
Elizabeth Chambers
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Long Hours
Pool
Love Time Long
Choose
Phone
Extra
Hour
Mostly
Park
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From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.
Alicia Keys
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Singer-Songwriter
Meaningless
Silly
Silly Things
Worry
Me People Worry
Beginning
Me People Beginning
Deal
Me Beginning People
Inaccurate
Juggle
Learnt
Mostly
Nothin
People Say
Weigh
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I've probably written some books - I know I've written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large audience, but that was mostly when I was first getting started in academia and writing for a narrow audience.
H. W. Brands
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Academia
Getting Started
Me More Know
Me Know More
Large
Large Audience
Mostly
Narrow
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Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.
Meg Cabot
/
Author
Austen
Book
Comic
First Person
Growing Up
Jane
Narrative
Romance
Sci Fi
World Me Never
Comic Books
Discovered
Introduced
Mostly
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When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'.
Nile Rodgers
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Musician
Blue
Jazz
Young Age
Mostly
Suede
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As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.
Evgeny Morozov
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Writer
Access
Credit
Data
Genuine
Hype
Millions
People
Possibility
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Currently
Histories
Loans
Millions Of People
Mostly
Valley
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Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity.
Rumaan Alam
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Family
Parenting
Advice
Artist
Balance
Intense
Specificity
Two
Useless
Works
Figuring
Mostly
Thus
Uniquely
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Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.
David Gilmour
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Musician
Finding Yourself
Firsts
Over It
Play
Mostly
Studio
Repeating
Thereafter
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We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
Patricia Sun
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Fearful
Powerless
Splits
Contend
Mostly
Operative
Poles
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When I'm lifting heavy, doing squats, and doing upper-body workouts, it's mostly about core and stability. But I'll still do deadlifts. I also do tire workouts with these big 600-pound tires, flipping them and stuff like that.
Aaron Judge
/
Core
Heavy
Lifting
Stability
Tire
Flipping
Mostly
Workouts
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With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'
Douglas Rushkoff
/
Writer
Giving
Last Night
Night
Writing
Collective
Good Thing
Jay
Jay Leno
Leno
Mostly
Spectacle
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You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.
Thomas Perry
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Novelist
Book
Character
Confusing
Difficulty
Lying
Presenting
Accurately
Lies
Mostly
They Say
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When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.
Robert Irwin
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Assess
Hole
Instantaneously
Mostly
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As for the reasons behind my retirement, they mostly center around simple fatigue and a fear that if I continue for many more years my work will begin to suffer, or at the very least ease into the graveyard of mediocre cartoons.
Gary Larson
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Cartoonist
Ease
Fatigue
Graveyard
Mediocre
Retirement
Simple
Begin
Cartoons
Center
Least
Mostly
Reasons
Suffer
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
Fareed Zakaria
/
Journalist
America
Brutal
Growth
Immigration
Innovation
Investment
Productivity
Rate
Fueled
Growth Rate
Historically
Mostly
Schedule
The One Thing
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The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.
Noam Chomsky
/
Linguist
Defeated
Demonstrating
Half
Nationalism
Resistance
States
Streets
United States
Deal
Iraqi
Million
Million People
Mostly
Nonviolent
Seriously
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It's a myth that generally Asians are mostly vegetarians. The Japanese are the kings of red meat, but it's expensive. The Chinese and Vietnamese love their pork. Many Indians, especially the Muslims, can't live without their lamb.
Wolfgang Puck
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Chef
Chinese
Expensive
Meat
Pork
Red
Red Meat
Vietnamese
Asians
Generally
Japanese
Indians
Lamb
Mostly
Muslims
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We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut.
Christopher Abbott
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Actor
Connecticut
Tennessee
Time Family Where
Gathered
Mostly
Summers
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Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
Norman Borlaug
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Agricultural Scientist
Agriculture
Asia
Country
Developing
Developing Countries
Eighty
Engaged
India
Pakistan
Population
Subsistence
Africa
Contrasting
Mostly
Seventy
Sharply
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I think Taeyang developed this image as a dancing singer, mostly because of records like 'Only Look At Me,' and 'Where U At.' To me, personally, I think Taeyang tried to make a change on 'I Need a Girl.' It gets a little mellower.
G-Dragon
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Rapper
Girl
Dancing
Records
Change Me Look
Developed
Change Look Me
Singer
Gets
Mostly
Personally
Tried
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A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing.
William Eggleston
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Photographer
Supportive
Always People Doing
Exchange
Diane
Garry
People Doing Always
Lee
Mostly
Prints
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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
Ellen Hopkins
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Novelist
Christmas
Family And Friends
Holiday
Inspired
Wrapping
Love Family Christmas
Event
Gathered
Hoping
Mostly
Presents
Sharing
Traditions
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