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That was one reason it was so important to name the right person-a moral person-to the post.
Men Don't Leave Me 2010
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) - Blindly devoted to her pupils and fiercely determined to imbue her gray 1930's Edinburgh surroundings with passion and color, Scottish schoolmarm Miss Brodie (Maggie Smith) is very much her own person-a spirited, eccentric freethinker given to divulging her personal life and politics in the classroom.
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) - Blindly devoted to her pupils and fiercely determined to imbue her gray 1930's Edinburgh surroundings with passion and color, Scottish schoolmarm Miss Brodie (Maggie Smith) is very much her own person-a spirited, eccentric freethinker given to divulging her personal life and politics in the classroom.
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The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) - Blindly devoted to her pupils and fiercely determined to imbue her gray 1930's Edinburgh surroundings with passion and color, Scottish schoolmarm Miss Brodie (Maggie Smith) is very much her own person-a spirited, eccentric freethinker given to divulging her personal life and politics in the classroom.
John Farr: Beyond "The Poseidon Adventure" : A Tribute To Ronald Neame 2010
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You are so immersed in the functioning of the organism you are repairing that you seem to forget that each is a person-a thinking creature of hopes and fears, joys and sorrows.
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She began that, and now every beauty company has a person-a face, a celebrity-but she was the first.
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She began that, and now every beauty company has a person-a face, a celebrity-but she was the first.
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"But," Jennsen asked, "once a person-a wizard-with that advanced knowledge removes those layers of precautions and fail-safe mechanisms, then they might be set off by one final, simple trigger?"
The Pillars of Creation Goodkind, Terry 2001
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If you are treated as an untrustworthy person-a potential slacker, drug addict, or thief-you may begin to feel less trust worthy yourself.
Nickel and Dimed Ehrenreich, Barbara 2001
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Now, you cannot take any well-known person-a famous performer-and nominate and elect them from among the district delegates, because they are either on television or they are in the district.
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