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"My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them."
"Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face."
"The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion."
"One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian."
"Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future."
"The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
"The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus."
"You can tell actually when he starts to talk about his family, or his Daughters, or his Wife, and his whole face - really he's so really kind of a dear."
"I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face."
"My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird: You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face."
"If you don’t stay away from her I’ll rearrange that pretty face of yours. - Simon"
"Hope is born again in the faces of children."
"For after all we make our faces as we go along."
"I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face."
"Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?"
"We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face."
"It's hard to make speeches with your hair in your face!"
"A shy face is better than a forward heart."
"I love to draw people's faces. I do that all the time."
"It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas."
