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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.


Viggo Mortensen

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You!
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played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
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COLM TOIBIN I like John McCain, or he seems like a cool guy in a lot of ways. I don't agree with a lot of hi...
JOHN MCENROE Mullah Omar was generally good to those who worked for him -- in my opinion, he was a good person. H...
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