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If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.
Chloe Sevigny

Feeling, Down, Put

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.
Bruce Springsteen

Person, Far, Until

The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.
Trey Parker

God, Bad, Writing

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.
Jonathan Sacks

America, Personal, Anyone

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.
Michael W. Smith

Old, Musicians, Army

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
George Will

Friends, Congress, Elected

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.
Ernest Gaines

Writing, Thought, Old

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Alexander Haig

Message, Understood, Clearly

Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.
Nancy Pelosi

Education, Health, Technology

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
Anthony Trollope

Young, Place, Dangerous

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
Zooey Deschanel

Down, Earth, Sister

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
Joyce Carol Oates

Sometimes, Read, Critical

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
A. N. Wilson

Black, Rather, Few

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?
Emilio Estevez

Great, Everyone, Fine

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
Rahm Emanuel

Work, Job, Done

The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.
Florence Welch

Time, Hard, Everything

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.
Jim Fowler

Work, Guy, Dirty

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.
Damian Lewis

Life, Away, Prison

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.
Gary Numan

Home, School, Parents

I feel lucky, though, because even when 'Alias' was popular, I was still sent scripts against type. I've never felt like the world only sees me one way. But yes, it's been really fun to be bad.
Jennifer Garner

Fun, Bad, Against

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
Barbara Corcoran

School, Help, Words

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
Dar Williams

Life, Sometimes, Ridiculous

Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.
Anna Deavere Smith

Women, Men, School

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
John Grisham

Death, Enough, Wrong

The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.
Lev Grossman

Job, Made, After

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.
David Walliams

Great, Political, Thought

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
Barney Frank

Serious, Knew, Ethics

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
Harold Larwood

Game, Real, Down

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.
Tim Robbins

Government, Idiot, Action

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
Joyce Maynard

Best, Long, After

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