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I love making lists.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he ...
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I love the smell of a man's skin.
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that yo...
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I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. Th...
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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more fle...
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The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this mean...
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an a...
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides...
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by str...
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I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthin...
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create...
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a litt...
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The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations b...
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If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort o...
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Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
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She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was...
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Bree knew this habit of hers rankled Lara more than any other--her ability to make a decision and an...
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I think we're just different sorts of people, me and you. You're a planner. Everything has to be per...
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She often wondered what the hell was wrong with men. Sex could be fun, natural, good. Why did they h...
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And then there were the things Sally knew her mother would have loved. Those, too, made it easy to i...
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Sometimes April worried that she'd been built without some fundamental piece that everyone else had ...
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It felt something like being in love, but without the weight of having to choose just one heart to h...
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With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the ...
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You could sell crack on the street and go to jail for decades. Or you could sell a woman, and be bac...
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All over the planet women were being tormented, yet if you took sexism seriously, you were a bore, a...
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Once this kid came into the world, Sally knew, she would live in constant terror of somehow injuring...
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A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being,...
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There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.
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These fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought...
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Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearv...
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We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find ...
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That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.
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Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ...
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If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.
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You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also...
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Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the...
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First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri...
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A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav...
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It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world...
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Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el...
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Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm.
“Yes, I see it, but—”
�...
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I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked.
“With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?...
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Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ...
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Why are you here?”
“Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa...
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Caught early enough, the waking forest had no time to disguise itself into something mundane. This w...
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Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The
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No god, goddess, or spirit would ever inhabit or employ a chicken.
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That night there was more than one killer in the forest, the next day a lot more ghosts.--The Book o...
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When faced with certain death, running is sensible, but I think a man can make an unhealthy habit of...
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Suri had a wolf named Minna. They were the best of friends and roamed the forest together. She had t...
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Power doesn't equal worth. Wisdom is a far greater virtue.
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Spring had let go of Winter's hand and was reaching out to Summer
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

And if you can't trust an ancient talking tree, what was the point of having one?
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

Fulfillment comes from striving to succeed, to survive by your own wits and strength. Such things ma...
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I’m Tekchin,” he said, exchanging an empty gourd for a full one. “The handsomest and most skil...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

I think comfort can be a curse, an addiction that without warning or notice erodes hope.
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Fools believe silence is a void needing to be filled; the wise understand there's no such thing as s...
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Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.
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When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting your...
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After catching an arrow in the back and passing out in Tom the Feather’s barnyard, Hadrian had wok...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

A lot can be determined by the choices we make, even if the action is initiated by self-preservation...
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We are more than the bodies we inhabit," Fawkes said. "They're little more than clothes, and yet we ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If you want to pay respects, by the way, he's at the zoo."
"At the zoo? As in the zoo?"
"J...
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I tried to find a way to go on. I could see familiar traces of the path that was my life, but there ...
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If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitate toward wh...
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What’s going on?” Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and ...
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Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up.
“Don’t bother,” Esrahaddon told them. �...
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NEVER INTERFERE WITH MELENGAR AGAIN
BY ORDER OF THE KING
… AND US
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A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?”
“A rat bit me,” she said, o...
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Hadrian shook his head and sighed. “Why do you have to make everything so difficult? They’re pro...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN We may be from different sides of the coin but we still hold the same value
COURTNEY .J. BROOKS (MT GAMBIER) I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitteres...
STEPHANIE COURTNEY The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.
COURTNEY LOVE The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dir...
JAI COURTNEY My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
COURTNEY LOVE I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind o...
STEPHANIE COURTNEY When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to ...
JAI COURTNEY

The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.
HENRY COURTNEY

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first...
MARGARET COURTNEY Jenny: Ned, I am having difficulties forming the image of the woman you should marry in my mind. Tel...
COURTNEY MILAN I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to thi...
COURTNEY LOVE There's always this one girl. She's desperate and she's weird and she's jealous, and you're stuck wi...
COURTNEY SUMMERS You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.
COURTNEY SUMMERS In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christia...
JOEL COURTNEY He holds his hands up to keep the Reapers from advancing. I forgot Zack's flair for the melodramatic...
COURTNEY NUCKELS Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader....
COURTNEY LOVE When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes ...
COURTNEY MILAN I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
COURTNEY LOVE Ideally, really ideally, you want to get to a place where you can have creative control over the mat...
JAI COURTNEY With 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent,' there isn't great emphasis on uniformity; it&#...
JAI COURTNEY I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as wel...
JAI COURTNEY I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
COURTNEY LOVE Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.
COURTNEY LOVE I look around the room at some of the familiar faces and some of those who are still strangers to me...
COURTNEY NUCKELS Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality....
JAI COURTNEY I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even i...
COURTNEY LOVE Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
COURTNEY LOVE My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.
COURTNEY SUMMERS [Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a littl...
COURTNEY LOVE I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I...
JAI COURTNEY We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't thin...
COURTNEY BARNETT I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.
COURTNEY ANDERSON The thing that surprised me the most is the housing need in the area despite FEMA trailers.
COURTNEY ANDERSON We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns.
COURTNEY ANDERSON That's the coldest way to go out, right there,
COURTNEY ANDERSON The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything ...
COURTNEY ANDERSON The headline is very misleading on this one.
COURTNEY ANDERSON These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, the...
COURTNEY ANDERSON That's why we brought LaMont Jordan here, to run the ball. When they were focusing on the run, they ...
COURTNEY ANDERSON It was good to be back on the court. And it felt good that everyone was supporting what our coach di...
COURTNEY ANDERSON It's very important that they keep us thinking and keep us learning. That's the point of a universit...
COURTNEY ADAMS We were a little lazy in the first half. Coming off the weekend we were a little down.
COURTNEY ADAMS We just stood there and watched it burn.
COURTNEY ADAMS You have to look at (sex) in the appropriate context. Because we are a Catholic university we tend t...
COURTNEY ADAMS I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember a...
JAI COURTNEY After 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted t...
JAI COURTNEY Patient care wasn't suffering, but the efficiency and the attitude of the nurses were.
CARLEEN COURTNEY We're going to look at staff and decide if we can hire an additional nurse.
CARLEEN COURTNEY We have a happy workplace. The group we have-staff and volunteers-mold together well and have fun wh...
CARLEEN COURTNEY This number will be invaluable when talking to local community groups and applying for grants.
CARLEEN COURTNEY My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.
JAI COURTNEY I have a newborn at home and I work full time, so a 25-30 minute drive is out of the question.
COURTNEY MANSELL Hearts will break and people will hurt you, darling.” Her mother said. “But when you let those p...
COURTNEY GIARDINA He's showing minimal side effects. Tests on his bone marrow indicate that the chemotherapy is workin...
COURTNEY CAMPBELL When he has APE, we go out on t he track and he propels the chair on his own a full lap and Dave wil...
COURTNEY VINCENT It was a really fortuitous time to come to Dartmouth.
COURTNEY OTTO The doctors were astounded to know she wasn't a smoker and said second-hand smoke was the cause of h...
COURTNEY OTTO We're trying to target students who are eligible here with the new admissions requirements.
COURTNEY CASSARD Even Donald Trump can't prevent something from coming out of someone's mouth.
RICHARD COURTNEY Once we did that we gathered whatever transcript that we needed to determine their status and if the...
COURTNEY CASSARD My head was exploding, my stomach ripping, and even the tips of my fingers ached. The only thing I c...
TOM COURTNEY Working with children is never an easy task. There are times where you will get frustrated and you w...
COURTNEY MUSUMECI I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now....
COURTNEY LOVE They are not allowed to gas litters of kittens or puppies, which they did. They're not allowed to ga...
COURTNEY EMKEN I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the b...
COURTNEY LOVE I like that Finland gave the U.S. a game.
COURTNEY RIEPENOFF Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
COURTNEY LOVE Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind...
COURTNEY LOVE A sharp pain in her chest became more intoxicating with each breath she took. There it was. The reas...
COURTNEY GIARDINA because she's really smart, and she's really cool, and, like me, we share the distinction of being t...
COURTNEY LOVE We are getting a lot of good stuff done. My girls are just working really hard. I admire their ambit...
COURTNEY BERRY If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant thing...
COURTNEY BARNETT ...a deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing yo...
COURTNEY SUMMERS I don't like you with Becky. She's not a very nice girl.'
'I don't like you with Jake. He's not...
COURTNEY SUMMERS It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been sim...
COURTNEY FORD I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie ...
COURTNEY FORD He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.
COURTNEY LOVE Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live throu...
COURTNEY LOVE I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the b...
COURTNEY LOVE This extension will focus everyone's attention on trying to reach an agreement. We continue to belie...
COURTNEY PRATT To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real t...
JAI COURTNEY We feel we're champions. We won fair and square. We beat them. We even beat them without our player....
COURTNEY COLLISHAW It's a really worthy cause, and we like to do whatever we can to help out. We really enjoy being a p...
COURTNEY VINCENT We felt it was important to close the facilities since multiple areas had been exposed. The incubati...
COURTNEY THOMAS Coach has said all yearlong that teams were going to try to stop [me] and Christie. And that [everyo...
COURTNEY COLLISHAW This plan, together with the restructuring agreement with the province, represents a significant ste...
COURTNEY PRATT We have to jell those three classes together. That's probably one of the biggest feats this season.
COURTNEY DEBOLT We tried to straighten it one time.
COURTNEY LEWIS The Healy's mission is to monitor the waters of the Arctic. It makes sense to homeport the vessel in...
COURTNEY BOONE I'm not sure who spun me around. I was coming up to turn three and wasn't in any braking areas and I...
JAMES COURTNEY [They still live in Portland, a Pacific Northwest city 150 miles south of Seattle.] Portland has pre...
COURTNEY TAYLOR We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.
COURTNEY LOVE That's the point of a jam, ... It feels good to do it, to just lay around, smoke out, talk to your f...
COURTNEY TAYLOR You have to make adjustments on speed and awareness. It's like five seconds quicker; everything's qu...
COURTNEY LEE Every game, we try to faze (opponents) with our pressure. We want them to be scared to get the ball ...
COURTNEY VANDERSLOOT Tea can have just as much caffeine, we just tend to find that it takes longer to hit you, it's more ...
COURTNEY KAMMERER I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!
COURTNEY LOVE I'm going to try to do something on my own. I doubt we pull anything out of the bag on A-Day.
COURTNEY TAYLOR I mean not even on the court. I mean growing up, meeting new people, taking a chance coming to Oklah...
COURTNEY PARIS The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something...
COURTNEY SUMMERS I don't see how she couldn't wake up and hear them messing her house up and stuff.
COURTNEY COX Criminal investigations is very important to Rickey. He has worked in it for many years, and he has ...
COURTNEY COX My main concern right now ... is that it leaves the criminal investigations division without people ...
COURTNEY COX We're going to take a look at what's happening here and try to find out what's really going on befor...
COURTNEY COX Her participation (in the complaint filed Thursday) is based on her belief that the city's not in co...
COURTNEY COX I was advised not to do Scream because no one likes horror movies. Then I heard, 'Don't audition bec...
COURTNEY COX We're just trying to go to college and get somewhere.
COURTNEY WARD A worm of fear wriggled in Jaden’s stomach, and the ethereal assuredness he channeled moments befo...
COURTNEY KIRCHOFF The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
COURTNEY LOVE What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: ...
COURTNEY BARNETT The challenges facing successful implementation of the exploration vision are formidable, ... rangin...
COURTNEY STADD We got a little stale and let them get back into it, but we kept our heads just like we did at (the ...
COURTNEY MEYER Cole's just talking -- ain't nobody jealous of no Cole. Cole was running so slow. I was going to try...
COURTNEY TAYLOR We're not lowering our standards. This is a catalyst for all the good families out there. We're will...
COURTNEY FRANK We tried. We worked hard to get the word out. We did interviews, we did CNN, we went everywhere, but...
COURTNEY HILL I realize I can get points off the glass. When teams are taking me away on the offensive end, I can ...
COURTNEY SIMS I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love t...
COURTNEY COX The performance was exotic. It was short. And it wasn't much more dreadful than the Chinese opera th...
COURTNEY MILAN When they needed her to step up against Finland, she did. She has strength, leadership and she's doi...
COURTNEY RIEPENOFF Over the past year there has been significant yardage gained for the Vision for Space Exploration. T...
COURTNEY STADD Ben goes to her. She's on the umbrella at the top of the power play. She's playing very well.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

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