Barbie is just a doll.
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Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick.
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Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
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Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
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Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
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Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
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Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
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The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
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The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.
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TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
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You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
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You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
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