Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to be with dylan,heads were gonna roll,i promise you that.
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It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, b... NICHOLAS SPARKS Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job. BOB DYLAN I told them that we were very proud of what they had done and asked if they wanted to participate in... JOE ANGLETON I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows o... EAVAN BOLAND I felt like I had to do it. We really wanted this bad and the girls who were with us last year reall... LAUREN WITHERSPOON I was with Bode when they called down that he had been disqualified. We both kind of looked at each ... TED LIGETY I was going to give them a first, ... Obviously, I didn't start at a first, but I was going to give ... RON WOLF She wanted to be true to herself... and she had a lot of demons because of it. I think her sexuality... BILLIE JEAN KING I was pleased. You're never completely pleased, but we had a pretty good idea what we wanted to do o... DENNIS RUETER The one thing that I was afraid of was that (with) them coming off a loss like they came off of ... ... KURT BUDKE I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just kn... CHINUA ACHEBE I wanted to go to the Arc really bad, and it bothered me that I had to eat my own words that we were... KEN RAMSEY And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do... RACHEL DRATCH I want you. Right now. If you said yes, I would kiss you. I would kiss you until we both forgot that... CHELSEA M. CAMERON When you have to walk further, wherever it might be, I beg you, never to go alone anymore. I think t... GIGI SEDLMAYER If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL It's our fault. 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