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I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.
Marlon James
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Novelist
Hunting
Rooms
Seven
Stalking
Uniforms
Adolescent
Boy
Classrooms
Poses
Spent
Striking
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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.
Richard Owen
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Genocide
Ingenious
Principles
Way
Affects
Mr
Chain
Darwin
Network
Principle
Striking
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I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.
Agnetha Faltskog
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Musical Artist
Appearing
Newspapers
People
Shyness
Thinking
Uninterested
Want
Pose
Striking
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The contrast between a figure such as Mark Zuckerberg, a billionaire before he was 30, and Alfred Krupp, who spent 60 years building one of the biggest manufacturing concerns in the world, is striking.
Kwasi Kwarteng
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Contrast
Manufacturing
Concerns
Figure
Mark Zuckerberg
Spent
Striking
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I understand everything Ronda Rousey is gonna bring that day. I don't think she's gonna be able to deal with my striking. She's gonna be really surprised when I touch her, when I connect on my punches.
Amanda Nunes
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Punches
Striking
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Being able to fight a guy like Brock Lesnar who is a wrestler, who has very limited skills in striking, in my prime and him in his prime, he doesn't have a chance. How can you beat me? You can't beat me.
Ken Shamrock
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Mixed Martial Artist
Prime
Wrestler
Chance Fight Me
Striking
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Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.
Frances Beinecke
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Conservation
Farms
Wildlife
Wind
Actions
Affecting
Eagle
Operating
Striking
Threats
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I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.
Pankaj Mishra
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Essayist
Chinese
Village
Caste
Egalitarian
Presence
Striking
Structured
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I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine.
Dave Gibbons
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Comic Book Writer
Drs
Film
Resonance
Stanley
Dr
Favorite Movie
Striking
Watchmen
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O'rourke
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Satirist
Dubai
Gorgeous
Over The Top
Abu
Nearly
Center
Striking
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A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.
John Boyle O'reilly
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Poet
Blow
Ought
Solidarity
Begin
Arm
Boxer
Foot
Round
Heap
Himself
Instead
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Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how Francis suggests that not only God but also secular politics must outrank economic imperatives.
Anand Giridharadas
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Idolatry
Rome
Secular
Bishop
Francis
Imperative
Striking
Warn
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth
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Baseball Player
Relationship
Sports
Baseball
Felt
Natural
Pitcher
Pitching
Strange
World
Mound
Natural Thing
Soon
Striking
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Novelist
Building
Clock
Communism
Concrete
Crushed
Rubble
Trying
Stopped
Crashing
Freeing
Instead
Save
Striking
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St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn't.
Simon Schama
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Art Historian
Jewish
Churches
Communities
Paul
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I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.
Marissa Mayer
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Engineer
Ceo
Fellow
Interesting Thing
Perfectly
Striking
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For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful, and striking present. He made books out of my dad's slide photographs, which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry.
Juergen Teller
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Birthday
Cousin
Cry
Forgotten
Profound
Photographs
Present
Slide
Stored
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I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.
Elizabeth Strout
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Author
Coffee
Maine
Small Town
Opposite
Bump
Cup
Exact
Exact Opposite
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Films like 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Shrek' are hits because they hit on different levels with different age groups. Striking that balance is what I strive for. But I won't know if I've done it until the audience sees it.
Kelly Asbury
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Different Levels
Groups
Levels
Strive
Wizard
Hits
Oz
Sees
Shrek
Striking
Wizard Of Oz
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Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.
Jay Parini
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Different Religions
Fundamentalism
Similarity
Thinking
Forms
Check
Dearly
Religions
Hold
Striking
Takes
Wishes
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Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.
Daniel Dennett
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Philosopher
Bears
Biology
Causes
Cells
Dissolution
Needs
Nutrients
Resemblance
Social
Actively
Bear
Cultural
Phenomena
Environments
Finding
Off
Preserving
Striking
Themselves
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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Alfred Einstein
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Editor
Men
Animal
Dominance
Eternal
Great Men
Strange
Struggle
God Men Great
Human Being
Mixture
Mozart
None
Striking
Whom
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
Cameron Crowe
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Film Director
Classic
Classic Rock
Jam
Lightning
Pearl Jam
Promise
Tragedy
Twice
Begins
Pearl
Striking
Tale
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Basically, I try to get across my striking, wrestling and grappling, and jujitsu. Every day, across the board, I try to get an equal amount of sessions throughout the week because I need to improve in all aspects of my fighting.
Robert Whittaker
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Grappling
Aspects
Board
Day Fighting Every Day
Striking
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A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.
John C. Calhoun
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Former United States Representative
Accomplished
Blessing
Evil
Opinion
Revolution
Wonderful
Itself
French
Event
French People
In My Opinion
Indeed
Mighty
Striking
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That is probably the biggest issue about the English game. You need to be a great player and great at striking the ball, of course, but it's also about your head and being able to understand the game, especially for a midfielder.
Xabi Alonso
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Footballer
Great Game Your
Great Player
Striking
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If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it's really striking. There are pockets where employers don't want to go, but for some reason, in part because of adequate safety nets, people don't want to leave.
Kevin Hassett
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Adequate
Employers
Long Term
Pockets
Safety
Unemployment
Variation
Where Look People
Look People Where
Geographic
Nets
Safety Nets
Striking
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For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.
Max Von Laue
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Physicist
Characteristics
Example
Radiation
Rays
Strong
Electromagnetic
Extent
For Example
Seek
Penetrating
Striking
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I found that the same things I loved about performing were the things I liked about directing and creating a piece - striking a chord that was in tune with the world and was reflecting back what I saw, just from a different angle.
Michael Arden
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Angle
Creating
Performing
Reflecting
Chord
Liked
Directing
Saw
Piece
Same Things
Striking
Tune
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Millennials are exceptionally independent and innovative. Striking out on your own and failing a few times is de rigueur, while going to work for a company on the expectation that you'll build a 30-year career there is unheard of.
S.e. Cupp
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Company
Failing
Independent
Innovative
Millennials
Unheard
Build
Work Your Own
Career
Exceptionally
Expectation
Few
Striking
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I was 11 years old and have the same curveball I have now. So I was literally striking everybody out. I always threw hard, and I was bigger than all the kids, so I would throw hard and throw that curveball, and no one could hit me.
Drew Pomeranz
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Striking
Threw
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One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.
Roberto Unger
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Philosopher
Features
Form
Globalisation
Goods
Labour
Should
States
Established
Capital
Imprisoned
Premise
Remain
Roam
Striking
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The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.
Eugene Jarecki
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Author
Example
Misunderstanding
Prison
Profit
Public Good
Basic
Complex
Industrial
Interests
Perhaps
Private
Putting
Stems
Striking
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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Playwright
Morning
Attention
Audience
Clock
Description
Eastern
Hemisphere
Rising
Sun
Theatre
Deal
Great Deal
Marks
Saves
Striking
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I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.
Johnny Marr
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Musician
Fortunate
Inspiration
Lightning
Mess
Love Good Know
Good Artists
Recognize
Striking
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But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.
Richard Neal
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U.s. Representative
Code
Simplification
Tax Cuts
Working Together
Tax
Easily
Cuts
Democrats
Desires
Republicans
Republicans And Democrats
Striking
Talks
Tax Code
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The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.
Elizabeth Meriwether
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Playwright
Different Ways
Reactions
Bare
Emotions
Laid
Sitcoms
Striking
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You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.
Frank Ocean
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Singer
Deliver
Ear
Effectively
Gotta
Listener
Striking
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Values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values, that I am not striking something down simply because I don't like it. That is a countermajoritarian aspect of our system of government. I would start with the text.
Raymond Kethledge
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Aspect
Enforcing
Striking
Text
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I hate striking out, but at the same time, I'm much better at letting them go rather than, earlier in my career, worrying about it so much before the next at-bat against the guy. You grow as you play, and every year, I work to cut them down.
Giancarlo Stanton
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Baseball Player
Time Work Better
Earlier
Letting
Striking
Worrying
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It was important to focus on working-class women because we so rarely focus, particularly in period films, on the working people. The suffragettes brought together women of all classes, which was one of the striking things about the movement.
Sarah Gavron
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Film Director
Working Class
Classes
Rarely
Striking
Working People
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I have the deepest admiration for Angela Palmer and her work so having my helmet as her subject has been a true honour for me. I think the sculpture is stunning and very striking, it's the most incredible combination of strength with fragility.
Susie Wolff
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Admiration
Angela
Combination
Fragility
Helmet
Honour
Sculpture
Stunning
Work Strength Me
Palmer
Striking
Subject
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Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting subject in itself, full of passionate encounters, contradictory judgments, striking discoveries, and unexpected reversals.
Joanna Scott
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Bleak
Contradictory
Encounters
Unexpected
Discoveries
James
Judgments
Striking
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When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.
Teju Cole
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Writer
Had Enough
Miles
Organize
Unusual
Picture
Photographs
Frame
Several
Striking
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It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
Francis Crick
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Scientist
Bases
Four
Reservations
Textbooks
Twenties
Amino
Biochemical
Generalizations
Hardly
Mentioned
Minor
Striking
Surprisingly
Throughout
Twenty
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Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
Billy Collins
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Poet
Bows
Complexity
Emily
Example
Loyal
Persona
Simple
Song
Within
Developed
Package
Remained
Rhymes
Stead
Striking
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The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.
Joseph Pulitzer
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Publisher
Sympathy
Conscience
Convince
Indignation
Picturesque
American People
Arouse
Awaken
Enlist
Forcible
Stimulate
Striking
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Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.
Will Hermes
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Broadcaster
Teacher
Debut
Song
Voice
Voluptuous
Adele
Alto
Student
Dusty
Slightly
Striking
Update
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It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.
Ville Valo
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Singer-Songwriter
Latter
Visual
Existing
Images
Striking
Visual Arts
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It's rare that you sit down for an episode of 'Psych' and think, 'Oh, that was just okay.' For the most part, we're either really knocking the ball around, or we're striking out and failing miserably, but you don't ever want to be anywhere in between.
James Roday
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Actor
Failing
Rare
Episode
Striking
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