"Faces can lie. Backsides can't."
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"The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours."
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"Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back."
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"I have the perfect face for radio."
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"Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France."
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"We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them."
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"There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty."
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"If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?"
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"Better to face the bear than run from it."
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"It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?"
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"The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity."
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"We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces."
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"You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased."
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"I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, I still felt that I wanted to change that, so I did."
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"You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face."
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"It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces ."
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"Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves."
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"Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion."
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"Life's true face is the skull."
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"I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die."
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