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Shopping

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Eli Roth Filmmaker
Shopping

"Dawn Of The Dead is about how we're just a country cannibalizing itself, turning into one shopping mall, and everyone at the mall is just brain-dead, wandering around. Capitalism gone awry, and the worst parts of human nature coming out. All these different things that people read into the films that are all there, very strong anti-Bush sentiments that went into making those films. It's great. I like it when people get it the second or third time, when someone else points it out to them. They don't realize it's been there all along. Those are my favorite movies."

Country Strong Shopping
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Elizabeth Warren Politician, Lawyer
Shopping

"It's critical to level the playing field, to make prices and risks clear up front, so when someone signs on for a student loan or a mortgage or a credit card, they know the tricks and traps hidden in the fine print. That's why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been working on a new financial aid shopping sheet. A shorter, two-page credit card agreement, a simpler mortgage disclosure form. All those are aimed toward helping people understand the basic bargain."

Two Agreement Shopping
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Eva Green Actress
Shopping

"I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop."

Men Years Shopping
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Shopping

"The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining."

Rivers Shopping Speaks Out
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Shopping

"Actually I am having so much fun, it has been the most fun time now that it has been announced and I don't have to, you know, it was really difficult to conceal, but now that I can be proud and excited about it I'm having so much fun shopping - it's great."

Fun Pregnancy Shopping
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Bryan Fuller Writer, Producer
Shopping

"I think because it is a very well-saturated story,episode of Justified in Hannibal, and we've all heard it in some frame of a story, we've heard the urban legend of waking up in a bathtub with a kidney missing. It felt like if we are telling an organ-harvesting story, it was really about quickly selling the iconography of an organ-harvesting story, and then being able to mask that as a perfect way for Hannibal Lecter to go shopping for his menu."

Thinking Shopping Urban Legends
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Activist, Author
Shopping

"Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works."

Car Shopping Airports
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Shopping

"Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less."

Land Hunting Shopping
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Viola Davis Actress, Producer
Shopping

"Even when I go shopping, I don't shop as a woman. The only time I shop is when I need something, and I'm in and out in less than 30 minutes, so I have no energy to look at 50 million gowns and styles and make sketches and think about heels. I'm not girly in that way. I'm relying on the stylist to do 99 percent of the work."

Thinking Shopping Girly
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Mackenzie Davis Actress
Shopping

"I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses."

Way Shopping Purses
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Gary Cole Actor
Shopping

"If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them."

People Doors Shopping
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Lauren Conrad Television Personality, Fashion Designer
Shopping

"Whenever someone comes up to me and says, 'I'm having trouble shopping.' I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody."

Different Pieces Shopping
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