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Tag Name "Surname" (13)

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My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
Samantha Bond
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My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds?
Thomas Ligotti
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You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.
Antonio Villaraigosa
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And this is Nymphadora- Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus, said the young witch with a shudder. It's Tonks. -Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only, finished Lupin. So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' muttered Tonks.
J. K. Rowling
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It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon.
Julian McMahon
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There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.
Milla Jovovich
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
Socrates
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Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.
Zoe Saldana
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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
Anne Enright
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There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.
Christopher Hitchens
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After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario.
Joe Dunthorne
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There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.
Lily Collins
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Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.
Russell Brand