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"If you're Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up - that's an awful thing. But to see that speculation in people, it's gotta sting a little bit."
"Is it just me, or are the 49ers doing an awful lot of ass-patting today?"
"It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book."
"One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'"
"The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing."
"For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!"
"Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school."
"It must be awful to feel you're not needed."
"Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete."
"I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff."
"I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread."
"I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions."
"I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful."
"Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it."
"Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?"
"She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand."
"I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too."
"I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre."
"Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends."
"The angles of my body show you an awful lot. I started doing coke to feel open, but by that time, the hole had opened so wide that I'd fallen through. The body language in those photos tells you everything."
