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Examples
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Attributing self-penned e-mails to him in order to stimulate debate, or maybe just not to feel so alone.
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Her self-penned first book, "The World of Muriel Brandolini" Rizzoli—a lavishly illustrated retrospective of her 17 years as a decorator—debuts next month.
Muriel's Moment David Netto 2011
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“Murder has become the primary tool whereby the state seeks to control the organs of liberty,” wrote journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga in a self-penned obituary that anticipated his own assassination in early 2009.
To Catch a Tiger 2009
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Contestants will be given the choice to choose between performing cover songs and their self-penned tunes.
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Jim Davidson is heading for the Glasgow Pavilion with his self-penned "strictly adults only!" blue pantomime Sinderella.
Hugh Muir's diary 2012
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“Murder has become the primary tool whereby the state seeks to control the organs of liberty,” wrote journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga in a self-penned obituary that anticipated his own assassination in early 2009.
To Catch a Tiger 2009
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Anne Hathaway channels her inner Wheezy on Conan when she performs a self-penned, anti-paparazzi rap "in the style of Lil Wayne" and with a baller's rasp, hand gestures not suitable for mixed company and some killer name-dropping Perez Hilton!
Top Moments: Anderson's Potty Humor, A Piers Walkoff and Royal Pains Gets Overexposed 2011
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"This really is fascinating," Madeley keeps telling us about these totally new pieces of information, behaving like a man who hadn't released a self-penned 300-page book on his own family history in 2008.
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However, a dip into his new collection of covers, Dreams sees his big voice squandered on the small scale of Elton John's Love Song, before roaring back to raspy life on Bill Withers's Ain't No Sunshine and a poignant, stripped back take on the self-penned I'm A Believer.
Neil Diamond - review Betty Clarke 2010
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Contestants will be given the choice to choose between performing cover songs and their self-penned tunes.
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