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"When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one."
"I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head."
"Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like."
"Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from."
"When I started to do quite well on the tour I thought I'd treat myself to a bright red Ferrari. I had always had a soft spot for them as a car brand and, when I was in the position to afford one, I decided to go for it."
"Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone."
"I just love bright red drinks!"
"If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything."
"Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days."
"But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day."
"I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles."
"I wish I could have a clone to do all the stuff that I don't like doing, like the red carpet stuff."
"All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealously, all those feelings are red."
"'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'"
"If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again."
"The red kind of symbolizes a lot of things I do in Africa, along with a lot of the work, like the red laces. Everybody that buys a pair can pretty much save a life in Africa."
"Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money."
"The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks."
"And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me."
"red plastic rain her tears stain"
