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I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walker!' my hair stands up on the back of my neck. It's uncomfortable. But when I hear, 'It's Brian!' it's cool. I like Brian.
Paul Walker
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Actor
Brian
Hey
Uncomfortable
Awesome
Neck
Paul
Stands
Walker
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Despite everything I've been through, despite being a kid with a spotty background, the Cleveland Browns stuck their neck out and risked taking me and put their faith and belief in me, and I won't let them down.
Josh Gordon
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Faith
Belief
Cleveland
Despite
Stuck
Background
Been
Neck
Browns
Through
Down
Put
Risked
Taking
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I just had surgery, cervical fusion, it's where they fuse the bones of the neck together. I had torn disks and all kinds of crazy stuff going on for 10 years straight and I had gone to about 42 different doctors.
Janet Hubert
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Film Actress
Bones
Fuse
Surgery
Torn
Neck
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If you have a guy like Jermaine, it's a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they throw themselves on the floor and take off their hats.
Pia Zadora
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Actress
Jesus
Europe
Hats
Mean Girls
Pain
Neck
Floor
Throw
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
Rachel Joyce
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Author
Cancer
Operations
Neck
Numerous
Reduced
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Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
Frances Mayes
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Poet
Eyebrows
Georgia
Italian
Length
Pool
Small Town
Neck
Eyebrow
Gene
Lift
Recognize
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I was the victim of a violent attack in March 2008. I had sulphuric acid thrown in my face and was severely injured leaving me with loss of site in my eye and full thickness burns on my neck, chest, face and hands.
Katie Piper
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Philanthropist
Acid
Injured
March
Site
Thrown
Face Me Hands
Neck
Burns
Chest
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From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That's why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.
Anthony Joshua
/
Professional Boxer
War
Art Of War
Battle
Boxers
Camps
Mindset
Noise
Training
Win Or Lose
Zone
Art Yourself Your
Neck
Lock
Lose
Shut
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May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots.
Spike Milligan
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Comedian
Bloody
Boots
Deluge
Dripping
Rain
Spain
Neck
Fell
Mainly
Plain
Socks
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Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.
Thomas Wentworth, 1St Earl Of Strafford
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Former Lord Deputy Of Ireland
Ambition
Blood
Climbs
Fall
Gold
Humble
Length
Content
Breaks
Neck
Drinks
Heads
Therefore
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My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.
Shaquille O'neal
/
Basketball Player
Dream
Basketball
Father
Made
Pillow
School
Sleep
Used
I Am Me Father
Ball
Neck
Stiff
Me I Am Father
Gave
Father I Am Me
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My viewers actually know about my little routine for spraying perfume. I put it on my wrists and rub them together, then I spray a little bit on my neck and three spritzes in front of me and then I shimmy through them.
Bethany Mota
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Video Blogger
Perfume
Routine
Spray
Viewers
Neck
Together Me Know
Rub
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At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Alanis Morissette
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Singer-Songwriter
Book
Breathing
Deadline
Fifty
Writing
Best Work Mind
Neck
Million
Million People
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I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.
Barry Watson
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Actor
Chill
Hate
Mean
Spine
Thinking
Love Movies Hate
Neck
Hairs
Horror Movies
Stand Up
They Say
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I've had two neck surgeries, a back surgery, three knee surgeries, eye surgery, but I keep bouncing back. I won't go away - kind of like a virus. I don't go away. I keep coming back stronger and stronger. I'm contagious.
Tito Ortiz
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Mixed Martial Artist
Contagious
Eye
Stronger
Surgery
Bouncing
Neck
Go Away
Virus
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Those were hard times, but I loved living there. I would walk on the tracks, hopping, skipping. I enjoyed the neighborhood, I enjoyed El Paso. I remember being chased by tumbleweeds on windy days; they came up to my neck.
Debbie Reynolds
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Film Actress
El Paso
Hard Times
Neighborhood
Windy
Neck
Chased
Skipping
Tracks
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I feel that my ideas of beauty have been given very strong backing by Botticelli and a few others: Slender hands, long neck, long limbs - look at Nefertiti. She was very teensy-weensy with a long neck and wide-spaced eyes.
Eileen Ford
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Limbs
Slender
Backing
Neck
Eyes
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I do have a Viking axe by the bed if I need to whack someone... My wife bought me a Viking axe - the axe side curls down so you can grab the adversary around the neck and you can use it to climb walls, as a grappling hook.
Mike Leach
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Football Coach
Bed
Curls
Grappling
Hook
Adversary
Axe
Bought
Neck
Climb
Grab
Walls
Whack
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One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.
Andrew Davies
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Writer
Adaptation
Clothes
Drag
Necks
Time Always Looking
Neck
Excuses
Time Looking Always
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I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
Alvin Lee
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Guitarist
Guitar
Practice
School
Shapes
Strings
Neck
Chord
Desk
Fret
Hidden
Seriously
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When I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
Kate Winslet
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Actress
Compliment
Heavy
Questionable
Neck
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I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.
Tony Campolo
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Pastor
Breathing
Israel
Palestinian
People
Neck
Bush
Contend
Establish
Fundamentalists
Moderate
Palestinian People
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
Ice Cube
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Record Producer
Funny
Alright
Feet
Thinking
Funny People Never
Neck
Fair
Foot
Telling
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On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
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Poet
Afterlife
Concealed
Filled
Gold
Pockets
Purses
Recovering
Senses
Strings
Bosom
Neck
Detain
Fastened
Round
Further
Hoped
Purse
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When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.
Laurie Simmons
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Visual Artist
New York
Art School
Comfortable
Crafty
Implying
Long Island
Stigma
Suburbia
Attached
Neck
Island
Real Artist
York
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When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I've turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher.
Mr. T
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Actor
Ankles
Chains
Gold
Higher
Slave
Steel
Tag
Africa
Ancestors
Neck
Price
Shackled
Symbolize
Turned
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I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let's say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and shoulders. And I like to be able to flip it off and grab the fiddle, and that's just the way I do it.
Hank Williams, Jr.
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Singer-Songwriter
Electric
Electric Guitar
Fiddle
Flip
Banjo
Neck
Grab
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I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.
Sally Field
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Actress
Opportunity
Bedroom
Curtains
Play
Real
Worn
Neck
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I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.
Amanda Burton
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Actress
Becoming
Gore
Looks
Nine
Prepared
Silent
Use
Witness
Years
Life Me Look
Now
Away
Before
Neck
Life Look Me
Misfortune
Tend
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I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.
Lynn Redgrave
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Actress
Country
Human Beings
Issues
Long Time
Order
Vote
Time Long Long Time
American Citizen
Time Long Country
Beings
Neck
Citizen
Finally
Reached
Sticking
Very Long Time
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I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
Jack White
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Singer-Songwriter
Attitude
Battle
Bent
Conquer
Guitar
Little Bit
Struggle
Bit
Neck
Guitars
Express
Moment
Tune
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The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.
Brooklyn Decker
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Fashion Model
Sports
Agents
Sports Illustrated
Thinking
Agent
Shot
Neck
Cover
Illustrated
Wring
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I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.
Stephanie Beacham
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Television Actress
Ears
Listening
People
Position
Too Much
Myself Always People
Neck
Ear
Myself People Sometimes
Right Side
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We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.
Cynthia Heimel
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Writer
Convinced
Core
Deep Down
Legs
Suspects
Believes
Neck
Met
Shrill
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A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.
Kenneth Jay Lane
/
Donkey
Neck
Dinosaur
Hole
Jewel
Shell
Tail
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After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.
Kimbal Musk
/
Affordable
Body
Broke
Real
Thinking
Come
After
Began
Neck
Possible
How
Fundamentally
Nourishing
Planet
Some
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You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.
Pete Wentz
/
Musician
Running
Little Bit
Long
People
Seems
Worth It
Totally
Life Long People
Shot
Neck
Run
Life Long Your
Devastating
Different People
Long Run
Meet
Stick
Throughout
Tons
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I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.
Doug Jones
/
Communication
Acting
Body
College
Emotion
Indiana
Mime
Portraying
University
Ball
Neck
Event
Learned
Realize
State University
Woke
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I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?
Jasmine Guinness
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Model
Horse
Ireland
Traveler
Neck
Cart
Falling
Hospital
Nurses
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If somebody does something Mr. Trump doesn't like, I do everything in my power to resolve it to Mr. Trump's benefit. If you do something wrong, I'm going to come at you, grab you by the neck and I'm not going to let go until I'm finished.
Michael Cohen
/
Resolve
Benefit
Neck
Mr
Grab
Let Go
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I would never bet against Peyton Manning. You know about the age and the neck and the strength. But I had George Blanda, and as he got older, he got smarter, and he just got rid of the ball quicker. I watch Peyton, and I see George Blanda.
John Madden
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Football Player
Age
Smarter
Against
Ball
Bet
Neck
Watch
George
Older
Quicker
Rid
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Even though 'SmackDown' has been kind of like the Internet darling, I believe that if they had three hours instead of two, they would find out that it's tough to be a darling when you've got that massive three-hour anchor around your neck.
Mick Foley
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Professional Wrestler
Darling
Massive
Anchor
Neck
Believe I Believe Your
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In the past, I have been guilty of returning from work with some parenting words of wisdom, ignoring the fact that my wife has been dealing with the situation for a while. The correct strategy at these times is to wind my mansplaining neck in.
Romesh Ranganathan
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Parenting
Guilty
Strategy
Wind
Neck
Correct
Ignoring
Returning
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I took to heart the instructions my father drilled into my head. Respect the customer. Pay attention to her. Take her package to her car. You broke your neck to get what she wanted because you never knew when the next customer would come along.
Stanley Marcus
/
Broke
Pay Attention
Neck
Customer
Instructions
Package
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I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.
David Sanborn
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Musician
Iron
Listening
Memories
Radio
About A Year
Neck
Earliest
Earliest Memories
Lung
Spent
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
James Wolcott
/
Journalist
Birthday
Smile
Children
Garden
Gifted
High Expectations
Self Esteem
Considered
Nowhere
Neck
Early Age
Nurtured
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Technology is transforming how we hold ourselves, contorting our bodies into what the New Zealand physiotherapist Steve August calls the 'iHunch.' I've also heard people call it 'text neck,' and in my work, I sometimes refer to it as 'iPosture.'
Amy Cuddy
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Social Psychologist
August
New Zealand
Transforming
Work Technology People
Bodies
Neck
Calls
Refer
Steve
Text
Zealand
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I had to do a Northern England accent once, and I didn't have much time, so I went and pored through YouTube. There are all sorts of resources out there. The Internet has made that much more affordable. Don't break your neck to spend your money.
Rose Mciver
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Film Actress
Affordable
Youtube
Time Money Your
Accent
Neck
Northern
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That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!
Robert Mccloskey
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Writer
Acceptance
Book
Necks
Paper
Rope
Tied
Bag
Neck
Exciting Time
Paper Bag
Sack
Spilled
Sudden
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
Kate Winslet
/
Actress
Beautiful
Compliment
Heavy
People
Questionable
Way
Neck
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