She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something 'would' happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, 'would not' happen.
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It's ridiculous. He's n... ROMAN REIGNS When I had my tryout, just from two days being in the ring, learning to bump, hit the ropes, and thi... ROMAN REIGNS It's always been my expectation to be the top guy, the face of the company, the one with all of ... ROMAN REIGNS After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first... ROMAN ROMANENKO You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and... ROMAN POLANSKI A lot of people tune in to 'Monday Night Raw,' and they can hear these boos or these mixed r... ROMAN REIGNS If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit... ROMAN POLANSKI Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that... ROMAN POLANSKI Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ROMAN GARY I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of alge... NANCY ROMAN At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic featur... ROMAN JAKOBSON When I started to make more or less serious money - for those times - then, of course, I wanted to s... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, ... ROMAN COPPOLA As far as match-ups are concerned, I feel pretty good about matching up with anybody. I'm sort o... ROMAN REIGNS Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ROMAN POLANSKI I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories... ROMAN COPPOLA Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the t... ROMAN JAKOBSON It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbin... ROMAN JAKOBSON To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: on... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,... JOSHUA ROMAN Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a ... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH Our strategy for expansion of the Borders brand outside the US is one that we view as essential to o... ANNE ROMAN Borders absolutely supports the customers' right to choose what to read and what to buy, and Free In... ANNE ROMAN When you have good people, you want to do what you can to retain them. If part of that is helping th... ANNE ROMAN Every effort is made to offer positions to current staff. ANNE ROMAN We do often attract former teachers and other professionals who spend their lives around books and e... ANNE ROMAN If it's a good tourism season, there'll be some hiring done at our stores. Tourism drives (hiring) t... ANNE ROMAN You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would ... ROMAN REIGNS Most of my hobbies involve athletics and outdoor activities. I'm willing to learn about anything... ROMAN REIGNS Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to b... NANCY ROMAN In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism bec... ROMAN JAKOBSON The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director mysel... ROMAN COPPOLA I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks dese... ROMAN COPPOLA Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as comi... ROMAN JAKOBSON I used to be a lot better looking before I joined WWE. Whatever happens in the ring is real, and for... ROMAN REIGNS Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a pa... ROMAN COPPOLA I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking abo... ROMAN COPPOLA Personally, for my character, I started as the silent but deadly type. ROMAN REIGNS After the situation with Kursk submarine, I started looking at Mr. Berezovsky in a completely differ... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH