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My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
My wish to meet Samuel Beckett had been prompted by simple curiosity and interest in his work.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
My father had none.
In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.
My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.
My argument is that there was no Saxon Shore prior to that time even though the forts had been in existence since the time of Carausius.
He listed what he had spent for `` My own diet in London eighteen weeks, in which I was sick a month ; ;
My Cousin Simmons carried a musket, but he had loaded it with bird shot, and as the officer came opposite him, he rose up behind the wall and fired.
My first thought was how had it happened so soon, but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we'd been living together six weeks.
My camp-made leather wallet, bulky with twisted, raised stitches around the edges, I stuffed with money I had been saving.
My grandfather had been stoned because of his editorials.
My folks wouldn't dream of having alcohol in the house, so my first taste of it had been -- of course -- with Johnnie.
Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).
He also had been working with Gerard Kenny and Kristi Kane ( libretto ) in London on a musical version of the classic film My Man Godfrey.
" My mother and father had been brought to this country from Russia when they were infants ," wrote Capp in 1978.
But on his arrival, all was chaos – " Scarcely had my troops got over when the dragoons and Swiss who had preceded us, came tumbling down upon my battalions in full flight … My own fellows turned about and fled along with them.
In 1952, Lancaster co-produced with producer Harold Hecht ( who had previously produced three Lancaster films under his own production company Norma Productions ; Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ( 1948 ), The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ), and Ten Tall Men ( 1951 )).
Television executives had been pursuing Ball to adapt her very popular radio series My Favorite Husband for television.
On his hesitant return, the queen greeted him with: " My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

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Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.
My great-grandmother, I have been told, made her garden her great pride ; ;
My intention, therefore, is not to say that Faulkner's awareness has been confined within the borders of the South, but rather that he has looked at his world as a Southerner and that presumably his outlook is Southern.
My husband's hours away from home for the past years have been from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the early part of the week, and as late as 8 or 9 on week-ends.
And particularly in the musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.
Ever since Bambi, and, more recently, Born Free, there have been a lot of books about animals, but few compare with Max Fink's wry, understated, charming, and immensely readable My Friend, the Quizzical Salamander.
`` My father is a sergeant of detectives and has been attached to Homicide for five years.
My lights would have been a giveaway if I'd tried to shadow him in the conventional manner.
My men have been here all afternoon, setting up for this thing ''.
*" Oh My Darling, Clementine " ( 1884 ) is an American western folk ballad believed to have been based on another song called Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden ( 1863 ).
Although the appellation Malachi has frequently been understood as a proper name, its Hebrew meaning is simply " My God's messenger " ( or ' His messenger ' in the Septuagint ) and may not be the author's name at all.
My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery ; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people ...

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" Biographer Ian McIntyre discusses the possibility of Reynolds having enjoyed sexual rendezvous with certain clients, such as Nelly O ' Brien ( or " My Lady O ' Brien ", as he playfully dubbed her ) and Kitty Fisher, who visited his house for more sittings than were strictly necessary.
My part, of which I had no wish to speak .. was strictly subordinate throughout.
Má vlast ( traditionally translated as " My Country ", though more strictly meaning " homeland ") is a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.
Another example of strictly verbal differences between the two texts can be found in II. 1, where the Project Gutenburg text has Lady Teazle rather more pointed in suggesting that Sir Peter can oblige her by making her his " widow " ( only implied by her in the 1821 text, leaving him to fill in " My widow, I suppose?
(...) My big task is to be strictly naturalist, strictly physiologist.
" For My Fallen Angel " is strictly an orchestral composition with sections of violin and synth.

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Humphries said in his autobiography, My Life As Me, that he found Cook's lack of interest in art and literature off-putting.
After the end of filming of The West Wing, Sheen announced plans to further his education: " My plan is to read English literature, philosophy and theology in Galway, Ireland, where my late mother came from and where I'm also a citizen.
* Justices of the Canadian provincial Supreme Courts, addressed in Court as " My Lord " or " My Lady " and referred to in legal literature as " Lordships " or " Ladyships ".
* My Darling Clementine literature
* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
* Stagg R. Leigh is the assumed name under which Thelonious Ellison, the protagonist of Percival Everett's novel Erasure ( 2001 ) writes his parody of blaxploitation literature My Pafology .< ref >
In his book, My Country Versus Me, he describes his love of classical music ( before 1911, he says, the year Mahler died ), literature, poetry, fishing in the mountains of New Mexico, and his dedication to organic gardening.
On the eve of battle, he wrote the legendary " A Letter to My Wife " ( 與妻訣別書 ), later to be considered as a masterpiece in Chinese literature.
The term is used in popular discourse, and scholars have traced its use in American literature ranging from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, to Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1884 ), Willa Cather's My Ántonia, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby ( 1925 ), Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy ( 1925 ) and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon ( 1977 ).
Nuttall's self-published " My Own Mag " mimeographed newsletter provided Burroughs with an important outlet for his experimental literature in the early 1960s.
* Feodor Vasilyevich Gladkov: literature, for Story of My Childhood ( 1949?
The use of this word in this sense is of the sixteenth-century, prescribing the boundaries established in drama and literature, used by Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster ( 1570 ) and echoed in Malvolio's tirade in Twelfth Night, " My masters, are you mad, or what are you?
*" For the Color of My Mother ", in Hispanic American literature: an anthology, compiled by Rodolfo Cortina, 1998.
His books, Mi Abuela Fumaba Puros ( My Grandmother Smoked Cigars )' and ' Mi Caballo Mago ( My Wonder Horse )' and ' Tierra Amarilla: and other stories ' are considered by many native New Mexican writers as quintessential examples of modern Hispanic literature and have inspired countless young Hispanics to become writers and educators.
If Prokosch, like Faulkner, had limited his creative energies to one milieu, one region, he would certainly be counted today among the pillars of American literature .” Among the most noteworthy of Prokosch ’ s latter-day writings are A Tale for Midnight ( 1955 ), a Gothicized retelling of the Cenci story ; The Missolonghi Manuscript ( 1968 ), a “ mediation ” on the romantic artist ; and America, My Wilderness ( 1972 ), an excursion into magical realism.
My conclusion is that the words in the Schedule mean the BBC has no obligation to disclose information which they hold to any significant extent for the purposes of journalism, art or literature, whether or not the information is also held for other purposes.
In 1991 he published Nỗi buồn chiến tranh ( original title-Thân phận của tình yêu ; My destiny of Love ), a work of literature that in the English Version laid the international foundation of the new wave of post-war Vietnamese authors, most of whom have found safe haven outside Vietnam, although the Sorrow's author Bao Ninh has preferred to remain in Vietnam.
" My 5th form teacher of literature credited me with having talent ; in the 6th form I wrote a novella called The Circassian Girl, and in the 7th a still longer one entitled The Iron Ring, both worthy of mention, apparently, only as stylistic exercises, dealing as they did with things I was totally ignorant of at the time ," Pisemsky remembered.
" My 25 years in literature have not been easy.
Having been involved in literature with such a reading passion, Necip Fazıl states that his " poetry started at the age of twelve " and that his mother said " how much I would like you to be a poet " by showing the " poetry notebook of a girl with tuberculosis " lying on the bed next to his mother's bed when he went to visit her staying at the hospital, and adds: " My mother's wish appeared to me as something that I fed inside but I was not aware of until twelve.

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