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As a matter of fact, I have met some real bad-asses working on the ground in the organization referred to above who have figured out ways to cut the bureaucracy to get the money as soon as possible to the Haitian people.
Maria Bello: How to ADVANCE Our Money in Haiti Maria Bello 2011
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As a matter of fact, I have met some real bad-asses working on the ground in the organization referred to above who have figured out ways to cut the bureaucracy to get the money as soon as possible to the Haitian people.
Maria Bello: How to ADVANCE Our Money in Haiti Maria Bello 2011
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I didn't want to depict them as bad-asses with guns out, because their job is positive: making the community safer for everyone.
Stephanie Woodard: Photography Book to Offer Innovative Look at Indian Reservation Stephanie Woodard 2012
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Genre rules are the “rules of physics” in those alternate universes, and the ability to play true bad-asses was liberating to me and my players, who could concentrate on how to do things with flair and coolness rather than scrape for that next bit of XP or gold.
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This was on of the top bad-asses of film effects history, in my opinion.
R.I.P. Stan Winston ed_dirt 2008
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As much as I love this list, it sure feels awfully “guy-centric”. i.e. lots of heroes, action stars, sci-fi characters, ultra bad-asses and such.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The 100 Greatest Movie Characters 2008
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Ving Rhames is one of the best character actors in Hollywood, having given us such beloved bad-asses as Marsellus Wallace (“Pulp Fiction”), Luther Stickell (the “Mission Impossible” series) and Buddy Bragg (“Out of Sight”).
Ving Rhames On A Mission From ‘God’ In His Latest Film » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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I find it really funny that one of the supposedly greatest comic book bad-asses, Wolverine, has Claire's ability.
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Which video game is it that has you hitting large, sharp-toothed, reptilian bad-asses that will eat you up without a second thought?
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ComingSoon recently spoke with Predators director Nimrod Antal about his upcoming sequel to the classic 1987 action film, and his controversial decision to cast Adrien Brody as the leader of a bunch of bad-asses who fight the Predator aliens.
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