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When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

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Sally Phillips
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 10
Actor
Actress
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
colonial Hong Kong
Sally Elizabeth Phillips
Taxi
Blonde
Suddenly
Everywhere
Harder
Four
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Brunette
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