I longed to take a break — or a nap.
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At school, I longed to switch places with someone else.
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She longed to see inside, but never had the chance.
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Lam is heard to say that she longed to resign.
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Fathers said they longed to be in their children's lives more.
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" She said the Italian longed to "see the fruits of 2011.
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He longed to leap on one, bareback, and ride it away.
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She came to believe that the earth longed to be known.
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After these decades of repression, the Chinese longed to breathe free.
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He had always longed to return to his native Puerto Rico.
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From the beginning of his career, Baldwin longed to make movies.
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I longed to be a foreign correspondent and get out there.
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King longed to change hearts, minds, public policy and laws, too.
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His words were stirring, and just what the gathering longed to hear.
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The houses in the paintings were ones that he longed to build.
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And that is the story that director Sofia Coppola longed to make.
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After securing his wealth, he longed to work for the public good.
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Now, he was frantic to reach the woman he longed to marry.
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When she reached her mid-40s, though, she longed to sing again.
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A familiar refrain, one I have always loved and longed to believe.
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He longed to know Russian as only a left-wing dreamer could.
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He longed to become a true member of that class, and he succeeded.
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I had loved my Airbnb days in Harlem and longed to move there.
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From the moment he'd died, my mother longed to be with him again.
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Mr Sprawson longed to be back in his nearby flat, among his books.
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However we communicated, one thing was clear: They all longed to be home.
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I longed to yell at Past Karl's face and break my own jaw.
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Rivers longed to recapture that feeling of being beautiful and loved, of having
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I longed to plant a garden, something to nurture that would nurture me.
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Still, I longed to hear all these artists in a real concert hall.
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Melissa Roy has longed to explore new places ever since she was little.
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And by the late 1980s, she longed to record a Spanish-language album.
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As a girl, she longed to know what was behind those closed doors.
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That was an opinion that felt like a burden I'd longed to lay down.
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In the past, however, the Trumps longed to break into the Moscow property market.
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The youngest of a family of seven, Jamie had always longed to be noticed.
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What she really longed to do, in fact, was invest in some of them.
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Still, he longed to create the sort of food that he grew up eating.
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The non-feminist side of my personality longed to be a beauty like Meg.
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All things I could probably afford to be, and even longed to be more of.
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He'd been formed and polished by élite institutions, and he longed to see them multiply.
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And without many friends or artistic connections to her family, she longed to leave home.
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And we longed to connect with women with an intensity that was difficult to contemplate.
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They longed to wake up in nature, by the water, for longer than a weekend.
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She longed to be as important to her domineering father as her five brothers were.
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Yes, for ~years~ Kanye West has longed to make his Family Feud debut. Who. Knew.
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She had longed to join the military but had been barred because of her condition.
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Rahad told Imad that he loved Tucson and its people and longed to return someday.
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Business was steady, but he longed to make the establishment a destination for lucrative business travelers.
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Julia longed to attend classes at the Dance Theater of Harlem with her older pal, Jade.
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The girl who once had longed to live with God had grown into a woman disillusioned.
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She longed to go with them to a remote place with a blue lagoon and waterfall.
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Both candidate Obama and candidate Trump knew that parts of the nation longed to be heard.
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All my life I longed to connect meaningfully to others, but felt I didn't know how.
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"This is what constitutes a 'reset,'" Culp said, using a word many analysts had longed to hear.
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"These are images many audiences have longed to see in mainstream films, but for too long haven't."
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In an instant, the stranger is transformed -- into the person the dog knows and longed to see.
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I longed to make money doing something that I loved — and I didn't love making vodka-sodas.
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However, there's one style that the Michelle Hive longed to see that never happened: her natural hair.
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As a monumental sculptor he longed to be exposed, potentially defying the state on a grand scale.
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She longed to be free of that dogged, unresponsive little figure following her everywhere around the house.
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Among Noon's work Solace has always struck a chord and Boehm longed to do something with it.
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Baldwin shows that world with the brilliance of the filmmaker he longed to be throughout his life.
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I can't say I ever longed to see any of my presidents in anything but profoundly boring suits.
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As a teenager in Seattle, he enjoyed tinkering with computers and longed to buy a Mac for college.
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Such slow-walking of the truth is what angers members of Congress who have longed to achieve transparency.
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How many of us have longed to don a poncho and hot pants for an excursion to Denny's?
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And who desperately longed to see her nearly 1,800 poems in print, stymied by men at every step.
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He longed to move up to a Class AA or AAA team, one rung below the majors. Anywhere.
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Susan had once studied music, and a part of her had always longed to be a professional singer.
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But during the life-changing ordeal, Manteufel longed to return home to see Ellie, he told FOX 6.
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She had longed to return to the stage and had tried her hand at the movies as well.
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Though Khrayba longed to continue to Germany, he had applied for, and received, a three-year residency in Greece.
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Corfiots longed to participate, and produced a couple of teams which survived and multiplied after Britain's exit in 1864.
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Marvel producer Kevin Feige has longed to bring Strange to the screen almost since the inception of the MCU.
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The night before, the parents had talked of how they longed to sit with the boys on the couch.
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One boundary that Seymour Durst, the second-generation patriarch of the business, always longed to push was the south.
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She confessed to me that she longed to talk about her kidnapping, but no one ever brought it up.
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At the same time, I longed to see her more, and now she would be two hours farther away.
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He longed to perform with the group but was so shy that for years he barely spoke to anyone.
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Back in 1997, I suffered from crippling agoraphobia, but longed to share my art with the widest audience possible.
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The grant opportunities allowed curators to propose projects many had longed to do but couldn't because of budget constraints.
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I enjoyed seeing old friends and new places, but I never longed to do a full-fledged tour again.
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He longed to do it correctly, he said; he loved Cunningham's work and wanted to be worthy of it.
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As much as he has sometimes longed to take hormones, he fears what they could do to his voice.
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As much as he has sometimes longed to take hormones, he fears what they could do to his voice.
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At her own wedding she longed to embrace her dying mother even though she was also scared of her.
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And later in life, after her husband died in 2010, she longed to return to the Lower East Side.
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We were delighted; we were filled with joy; we longed to experience his ketchup- and mustard-garnished exuberance ourselves.
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Yes, he propositioned, intimidated, groped, and did worse to all manner of women who longed to be in pictures.
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Not long ago, gleaming new rail lines promised to take us—and the country—to places we longed to be.
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Ina is food goals — and I longed to exude her demure culinary confidence, if only for a mere few days.
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Mendoza-Sanchez had longed to one day see her daughter, who she helped overcome a learning disability, reach graduation day.
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Growing up the son of a prominent developer in Queens, Trump longed to move to Manhattan early in his life.
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He plastered his name on anything he owned, seemingly marking his territory in the city he once longed to frequent.
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They longed to break away from the tyranny of perfect provenance, from the tasteful salons filled with stiff family heirlooms.
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Also because of the fear of destroying our idols—the fear of ruining somebody we admired and longed to emulate.
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Given all that the stolen had survived, I longed to hear parallel wisdom on both sides of this human tragedy.
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Since then, her family and friends have longed to learn the truth about what happened to the New York teen.
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I longed to see some mountains or more varied landscape, and apparently, I missed my one chance to do so.
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With Coloring Book, Chance was able to pull off what Kanye so longed to do with The Life of Pablo.
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Raised in the Pentecostal faith, Fox longed to recover an artifact that would validate the biblical stories of her childhood.
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She opened with an autobiographical anecdote about being a gangly ten-year-old who longed to be a petite gymnast.
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My father, like L.B.J., grew up there and longed to return after his sojourns in the capitals of the world.
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Growing up with a musician father, Ms. Galás played the piano in bands, but eventually longed to be a frontwoman.
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In late 2016, she finally tackled what the family had longed to do: a complete revamp of the dated bathrooms.
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It was a devastating decision, as I longed to remain a career officer, and I prepared to suffer the consequences.
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Andrew sought a mother for his children, and Abby, considered a spinster at 37, longed to leave her crowded home.
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But when I longed to use AutoPilot most — during headache-inducing Silicon Valley commuter traffic on the 280 — it wasn't accessible.
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That kind of respect is an attribute Russians have longed to see for their leader since the days of the czars.
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"Despite everything that had occurred between Naika and her mother, Naika longed to be home," DCF officials wrote in the statement.
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Both women longed to find something to soothe their pain but all the books on loss were clinical, patronizing or cheesy.
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But, it's McGregor who Holloway has longed to compete against for years following his decision loss to the Irishman in 2013.
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House of Cards has always longed to be an opera, right down to the soprano who occasionally wails on the soundtrack.
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Those proud Latinos gunned down that morning presumably sought out the exact same music I've longed to move my hips to.
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The breakup had been excruciating, but Mr. Spahn, who longed to start a family, felt that the marriage wouldn't have lasted.
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Since Stella suffered a brain aneurysm last month, John has longed to spend as much time as he can with her.
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They fled to seek freedom and came to South Korea ... (they) always longed to go back and reunite with their families.
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Her lungs couldn't take New York's heat waves and she longed to marry a redheaded boy she had met back home.
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She longed to belong to a skydiving group where she could feel completely comfortable, with people who looked more like her.
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Now it was O.K. to talk, though I still avoided touching, even though I longed to give her a few hugs.
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He may be best remembered for his persistence in capturing the knowable — in finding the people who longed to be seen.
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A diligent worker who had risen from tradesman to middle-class property owner, he longed to impart what he had learned.
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It simply allows you, willingly and without distraction, to immerse all your senses in a fantasy you've always longed to inhabit.
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"All this time, I longed to share my feelings with you, and it seems you wished for the same," she says.
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Like the inside of a nugget, longing to break free from its shell, I too longed to free myself from this secret.
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It was also a "virtual estate," for fans who longed to access some simulacrum to Prince's mysterious Paisley Park home and studio.
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Instead of moving ahead, he longed to open up the floors beneath our feet and send us plunging ever backward into history.
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In April of 1955, Marilyn appeared on "Person to Person" to discuss her career and the parts she truly longed to play.
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Ms. Sorokin, a Russian immigrant from a middle-class family, longed to be a member of the upper echelon of Manhattan society.
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Other tunes sounded overburdened, harsh and cacophonic, and I longed to shut them off and return to silence — as I still do.
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Mr. Darhan, an immigrant from Yemen, said he longed to play with his children, or to sit close together and watch television.
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Many sent photographs and shared stories — first dates, shared hardships, how much they, too, have longed to see more reflections of themselves.
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"When we first met, we talked about how we both longed to have a small town life with our kids," he says.
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Like Aladdin, Diyab wanted to own a market stall; like Aladdin, he longed to be a part of the upper echelons of society.
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Pakistan pre-empted him by sending armed "volunteers" to foment an uprising, for surely his Muslim subjects longed to join their new motherland.
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Swanson had longed to invent ridiculous household products like a "dustless broom," and she obsessed over patent law and issues of Popular Scientists.
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In 1940, she longed to go to Europe as part of an aid operation for refugees, but Franklin vetoed it as too dangerous.
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Because no one was doing such P.R. for our local foods, we longed to leave our shores to savor this manna from America.
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The town was becoming more consumerist and globalized, but most teenagers longed to leave behind the quiet life in search of real opportunity.
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His parachute failed to open, Ms Klenda says, and his family knew he had died, but she longed to bury him, "even a knuckle".
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"Wedding Song" is a fitting closure, of sorts, of how O could express what her heart longed to tell via the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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Like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the woman who now sits in an Iranian jail, I longed to visit family, friends, the land of my birth.
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This must have enraged Cunanan, the openly gay son of an immigrant, who saw in Versace the anointed prince that he longed to be.
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She longed to return to Chaunt but knew she would not, reasoning that only if she did not witness it again might it endure.
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The young people longed to come close and touch the cows' teats, but, since they weren't invited, out of pride they kept their distance.
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This was his passion project, one he had reportedly longed to make for decades, and had hoped could bring the church into mainstream acceptance.
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I longed to see how one event led to another in her life, and how the troubles of earlier scenes resonated in later ones.
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If you've always longed to follow the Yellow Brick Road — and not just as an armchair traveler — this may be the production for you.
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Although Henry had longed to get rid of Becket for years, he presumably came to rue the day his words of rage were heeded.
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He longed to explain to his military superiors that he couldn't take part in attacks because he had a painting to finish at home.
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If you've ever longed to follow your Katz's pastrami-on-rye experience with an Elyx spritz, served poolside and al fresco, you're in luck.
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But during the life-changing ordeal, Manteufel longed to return home to see his own dog, a pit bull named Ellie, he told FOX 6.
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Much as he had longed to be a fighter pilot like his father, a career soldier would probably have passed on the message without thinking.
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According to historian Mark Harris, Huston was disappointed with his latest documentary, The Battle of San Pietro (191942), and longed to return to civilian life.
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There were times when I definitely longed to see a character moving—or hear Bolin's voice, or how Jeremy Zuckerman might score a certain scene.
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Yet she admitted that she sometimes longed to be back at one of the front-line emergency rooms, despite all the misery she had seen.
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He looks forward to escaping from his hotel into the streets of Turin, the secret heart of a city he has always longed to visit.
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I feared that a connection I had longed to make my entire life, my only link to my maternal roots, was now under political siege.
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He longed to illustrate Dickens, but when he was turned down he wrote his own novel, "Vanity Fair," partly so he could illustrate it himself.
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It's such over the top nostalgia that it's totally genius, whether that nostalgia is actually part of your memory or something you've longed to experience.
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The next morning, however, I'd ring her to say what a lovely dinner party she'd given, and how I longed to see her again soon.
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They have longed to escape the rules that rein in their predatory practices, and now they have the Trump administration with its aversion to regulation.
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One moment, his niece wanted to rip off the remaining time like a Band-Aid; the next, she longed to linger inside each precious second.
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Some longed to go back to the town that had been their home for generations, while others assumed they could afford more space in Naraha.
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Korbin longed to interact with his American classmates, but every time he tried, the conversations fizzled when he couldn't understand their cultural references or slang.
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They weren't able to articulate it at the time, but they longed to be among other gay people, to see a possible future for themselves.
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The report says she took great pride in her appearance, cared deeply for younger brother and longed to live at home with her mother and siblings.
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He longed to hear the voice of his baby, whom he watched grow in photographs she posted and quickly deleted, wishing he could hear his voice.
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He longed to go into Syria to support the rebels, to send heavy weapons to Ukraine and to "bomb, bomb, bomb" Iran, as he sang once.
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But like him, I hoped to enter upon a rich, creative spell — in my case unfettered by the thorny racial expectations I longed to leave behind.
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I longed to be back in East Hampton, running along the beaches, through the dunes and the miles of potato fields my father's family had owned.
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People longed to be drawn into his orbit for the good moments, the flashes of brilliance or mere attention, for which they slogged through the bad.
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I went on to study fine arts, music and film—and returning to Pakistan, longed to find a way to combine my love for these mediums.
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One middle-aged woman, who declined to be named, said she lived in a dark ground-floor apartment and longed to move into a newer building.
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He needs a real name, not least because it makes him sound like a real person—shades of Pinocchio, who longed to be a real boy.
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I longed to find an absolute moral Truth and craved a sense of belonging with others who recognized and ordered their lives according to that Truth.
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Zilberstein talked about the papers and the historical figures and objects he longed to explore: Nietzsche, Mozart's Requiem, Orwell, the Brontë sisters, the Dead Sea scrolls.
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The panelists, as well as the doctors in attendance, bemoaned the time it took them to complete electronic records, time they longed to spend with patients.
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He attended the segregated Dunbar High School and, infatuated after seeing Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis at the Smithsonian Institution, longed to become an aviator.
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While we've probably had chief executives who longed to jail their critics or enrich themselves while in office, none of them dared act on those desires.
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" He always longed to escape to America, enticed by images of it he'd seen in MTV music videos and television shows like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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This sleeper hit stars Melissa McCarthy as a woman who's employed by the CIA behind the scenes but has secretly always longed to work in the field.
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But participants have longed to interact with the system in more advanced ways, which led to the release of the API today on the IBM cloud platform.
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Many of us have longed to have a working arcade cabinet in our homes — but a combination of space and price often keep them out of reach.
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So the network asked Andem and Magnus to talk with Norwegian girls between the ages of sixteen and eighteen and find out what they longed to watch.
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Matt Saracen's relationship with Coach Taylor resonates with anyone who has ever longed to please a coach or who has grappled with the absence of a parent.
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Ms. Choi longed to be reunited with the sister, a 50-year-old dressmaker with her own home business, and also the nephew she had left behind.
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He sought out pieces that have always tugged at him, important works he has longed to own, those that formed his aesthetic during a sui generis childhood.
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Thus, it made sense that the duo would start anew, adultery be damned, in Los Angeles, where Megan longed to live by the beach once freed from captivity.
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For years Asian-Americans, who make up about a third of his district's registered voters, shunned politics, though they longed to assimilate and fit in in other ways.
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Sarah, 453, grew up in Christian household in Oklahoma City, and longed to find a sex-positive, queer-inclusive community where she could explore those parts of herself.
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It turns out that even beauty icons like Kidman have insecurities, and she began altering her curls years ago because she longed to fit into Australia's beauty stereotype.
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I longed to get to a place where I could think about how Allen's many layers of mediation connect to the unknowability of Bob's experience of the world.
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But Airbnb's new feature means people can now eschew Yelp, Facebook, Google and other sites that have all longed to control the connection between consumers and local businesses.
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All my life I have longed to see such a plant in flower, but so far my own night-blooming cereus has proved to be a nonblooming cereus.
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This week, Republican senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and Jeff Flake of Arizona finally said what some of us have longed to hear from those in their position.
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She longed to scream out the details of what had been done to her, but instead she was expected to get on with life as though nothing had.
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Father Gafour, the pastor in Denver, fled Sudan more than 30 years ago to avoid being killed and said he and others in the community longed to return.
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She bought her mud-brick house in Taroudant, where she came several times a year, because it reminded her of the country to which she longed to return.
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She's a construction with flashes of realness—in her soothing but powerful voice, we hear the girl she once was and the star she always longed to be.
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But if you've ever longed to hear the sound of a saw cutting through neck gristle mixed for Dolby Atmos, this Cannes-prize-winning filmmaker has you covered.
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But Karl Lagerfeld, the longtime creative director of the famed French fashion house, who died in February, had another wardrobe staple that he longed to call his own.
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The other longed to be a police officer when he was young, but evolved instead into the sort of neighborhood nuisance the police often have to deal with.
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The series' characters, deepened by the divisive second season, longed to come together and find connection, even as the world was ever more intent on keeping them separate.
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On Sunday afternoon, I longed to join what promised to be a productive discussion about art and activism, organized by a group called the Artists' Political Action Network.
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I will never forget how hard you felt against my pliant lips, or how my tongue longed to surround you, to take you until I could take no more.
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Yet while El Comandante wanted to play with the big boys -- in fact he longed to be the biggest and baddest boy -- he was discounted when the showdown came.
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Even in my teen years, when I was most feminine, both physically and in performance, I often longed to get out from under the strict Southern definition of femininity.
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"It was a thrill, partly because we had longed to get our hands on one for so long, and partly because the animal is so strange," Haygood told Gizmodo.
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Since the early years of his political career, Tayyip Erdogan has longed to bring the Olympics to Turkey, making it the first predominantly Muslim country to stage the event.
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Mr. Goodman longed to create fantasies for people who led relatively dreary workaday lives and would never get to visit the vibrant inner sanctums that he painted for magazines.
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She longed to be the kind of person who was confident enough in her own sense of goodness that she would know definitively that she could never commit murder.
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And I did fear it, often, for as much as I longed to be seized, swept up, and changed without or even against my will I also dreaded it.
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" Asked if he had ever longed to meet his patron saint, Everett delivered something like a Wildean epigram: "Meeting people is always, I think, one of the great mistakes.
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Engineers have longed to let cars swap data on location, speed, and heading for decades, and since the '25s many have pinned their hopes on short-range radio transmitters.
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The clincher was the land's suitability for tree-planting, as Richard, a pilot for 210 years, longed to dig in dirt after a lifetime viewing the planet from a cockpit.
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Nancy, who told close friends she believed in an afterlife and longed to be reunited with her husband, will be buried right beside the former president on the library's grounds.
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"Where the first album was really about what I had been through, the dark times and times I longed to have", Letta said in a press release about the record.
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" He said of opera, "I longed to be in the huge dimensions where you take over a whole evening, and wanted the great challenge of writing a really large piece.
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He had been duck hunting in Saskatchewan and loved to ride his collection of snowmobiles at his lakeside cabin, but he longed to find a project to throw himself into.
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Strap on your proton packs: An insanely realistic VR experience in Times Square is making dreams come true for every Ghostbusters superfan who has ever longed to zap some spooks.
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He faced away from the women dancing on the stage, the ones wearing the kimonos he had longed to see, just as he had turned away from the jazz singer.
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TÉRRABA, Costa Rica — For decades, members of the Brörán tribe in southern Costa Rica longed to take back what they considered ancestral land from the farmers who also claimed it.
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He got a job go-go dancing at IC Guys, a closet-size gay bar in the East Village, and interned at Paper magazine, interviewing artists he longed to emulate.
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Except for King Edward, later the Duke of Windsor, who was exiled from home but longed to return, no senior royals have lived for any substantial time anywhere but Britain.
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This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
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The protagonist of "The Bluest Eye" longed to be like Shirley Temple, but in this book and those that followed her creator rejoiced in dark eyes, thick lips, flared noses.
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Somewhere between that school play he longed to stage and avant-garde performance art, Jurassic Park: The Musical will feature video, puppetry, moving sculpture, songs, tap-dancing, and blood (presumably fake).
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Quinn has longed to write films since, at 10 years old, he met Ricky Devlin, a handsome 20-something screenwriter who taught Quinn the time-tested secret of the hero's journey.
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I deeply longed to feel that sense of ownership, but I didn't know how to access it because I had been emotionally battered so severely by a fat-hating, woman-hating culture.
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Temporarily putting her packing on hold, she joined her mother in the Berkshires for a few days and quickly discovered that she longed to return to the city, and to Mr. Roche.
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When: Tuesday, September 20, 7–9pm Where: Old Stone House of Brooklyn (1 Third Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn) Have you ever longed to see a demonstration of early American baking and whiskey distillation techniques?
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Instead, the relationships I developed with men online gave me a fix of being treated like the grown-up I longed to be, which made being among my peers in school more bearable.
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" Soon after her wedding, Karimi told BuzzFeed News that she longed to go back to work, but couldn't because "a woman's priority changes after marriage, it's all about her husband all the time.
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She was reacting to media coverage on the radio, and she longed to hear more positive stories about the indigenous experience, in particular the strength of families and communities in admittedly hard times.
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Gertie told Arty how wonderful Gladys was, as if this were news to Arty, and said how much Billie longed to send Gladys a postcard, as if there were some law stopping her.
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Extraordinarily tall for my age (4-foot-11 in the first grade) and broad-shouldered, I might have excelled at contact sports but I wasn't built for the ballet I longed to do.
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" Mr. Stanton won the part after he confessed to its writer Sam Shepard, who died in July, in a Santa Fe bar that he longed "to play something of some beauty or sensitivity.
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He longed to scan a supermarket label or road sign with ease and had grown increasingly upset about his second-grade education, understanding how inadequate it would prove in the years to come.
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Often the stars featured in narratives that played into their well-known personas: Keaton's episode opened with silent film storytelling techniques, for instance, and Rooney's featured a jockey who longed to be taller.
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As much as we've longed to see the gunslinger Roland Deschain on the big screen, we had come to the terms with the likelihood that much of the series cannot be translated to film.
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His problem was the rise of terrorism as an election issue, especially after the attacks in Paris, as Americans longed to feel safe and hear plans to combat Islamic extremism in the Middle East.
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As for the old-school Jedi Order fans had longed to see, this movie was just the beginning of Lucas' long campaign to change their minds on that sanctimonious old order of Force wielders.
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Hernandez didn't want to live in fear of being pulled over by police; he longed to own a car in his name and he didn't want his immigration status to be illegal any longer.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Renata Rojas has longed to visit the wreck of the Titanic since she was a girl, years before the ill-fated passenger liner was discovered on the seabed three decades ago.
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I encouraged them to better understand what might be driving these behaviors, and a common theme emerged: They all longed to feel recognized for their emotional pain and for the legitimacy of their interests.
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She had longed to make the hajj for years but was unable because she lacked a mahram, or male guardian — usually a husband, brother or father — to accompany her; male pilgrims can come alone.
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But watching Mr. Luna build his "empire," I longed to see a Latino actor play a big Hollywood role without seeing him leave the usual trail of cocaine and severed heads in his wake.
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Any fan of the creepypasta who has longed to be able to watch its fictional TV show Candle Cove will be more than satisfied with the loving, terrifying detail it is afforded on Channel Zero.
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After a rollicking version of "Georgia on My Mind," she declared the song was a lie; from almost as far back as she could remember, she longed to flee her hometown, Atlanta, for New York.
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There is one double feature I have longed to see: Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation," a 1974 psychological thriller about surveillance, and "Night Moves," Arthur Penn's 1975 film about a detective in over his head.
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After reading "How to Make a Spaceship — A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight," by Julian Guthrie, I longed to hack space hardware under clear Mojave skies in California.
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"I was really excited coming back from Reading and Leeds in that van, and beginning the whole thing," Gould says today, reflecting on the self-made murder mystery that he'd longed to write for years.
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She was my '80s version of Donna Reed in The Donna Reed Show, the blonde-haired-blue-eyed ideal to this dark-haired, brown-eyed Jewish girl who longed to look like the American norm.
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But it was such an immense feeling of relief to know that no matter what happened, I had done that because I had always longed to be a mum and couldn't bear that being taken away.
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The straight-shooting Comey showed up to utter 12 words that Clinton's campaign had longed to hear following months of speculation that she could face legal charges over her private email arrangement as secretary of state.
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He had long been wanting to find out the truth, and much more importantly, he longed to get his hands on a recipe so he could make the cake at home and finally tasted it again.
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Growing up in Oklahoma in the '80s, I had a good life, surrounded by family and close friends, but I longed to be somewhere bigger, like the places I was seeing in the movies I consumed.
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And just when he thought he might be able to stand up to his domineering father, tragic circumstance conspired to draw him ever closer to the family he longed to shed like an ill-fitting skin.
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Before there was an AIPAC, before Theodor Herzl founded the modern Zionist movement, and even before there was a United States, our Founding Fathers and even their forefathers longed to restore the Jews to their ancient homeland.
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President Vladimir V. Putin bet that Donald J. Trump, who had spoken fondly of Russia and its authoritarian leader for years, would treat his nation as Mr. Putin has longed to have it treated by the West.
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We both graduated from English as a second language lessons in record time as kindergartners and first graders, and we longed to play and talk and live in English as if it were a shiny new toy.
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Lopez brought the moves and style (including the infamous bedazzled bustier), but she also gave us a glimpse into Selena's life beyond her public persona, portraying her as the obedient daughter who longed to love and be loved.
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The very fads I longed to rock as a 13-year-old are back and hitting trend lists like a vengeful wildfire: Hair bows, scrunchies, and crimped hair are crawling back — and they've brought body glitter with 'em.
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On Wednesday, Joanna, 41, shared that she had the opportunity to watch her mom Nan Stevens cook her "favorite" holiday meals and was able to write all of the recipes down — something she's longed to do for years.
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Although she was thrilled her home had been the go-to hangout for her son and daughter, Francesca, now 32, and their friends during their adolescence, she longed to turn the large, bright apartment into a quieter space.
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Some presidents may have longed to punish particular news organizations or reporters, but aides have generally found ways to protect their bosses from such self-defeating moves, fearing that such vindictiveness would just make their bosses look small.
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If you're the kind of person who's longed to leave their phone behind on quick errands outside the apartment or when you're going for a run or to the gym, a standalone Apple Watch could be a big draw.
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Daenerys found herself in mortal peril at the end of season five's ninth episode, the forces who longed to overthrow her rule of the city of Meereen having cornered her in an arena, where they planned to kill her.
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Salvador Dalí wore many hats in his life: luminary Surrealist, collaborator with cinema legends Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock, self-proclaimed clown, and experimental filmmaker—but from the age of six he longed to wear a chef's toque blanche.
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Although he has lived in China for most of the last three decades and married an ethnic Korean woman there, Mr. Kim says he never felt at home or safe there and has longed to defect to South Korea.
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Originally, she'd been pleased to have a live-in job—the solitude meant that she wouldn't place herself in environments that put her loyalty to her husband at risk—but now she longed to spend the weeknights with Emma.
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But I longed to free this down-to-earth dish—priced, astonishingly, at thirty-two dollars—from a menu with its head stuck in clouds of caviar, foie gras (for now) with truffle gelée, and rib eye for two.
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May, a synchronized swimmer who won gold at the World Championships technical mixed duets last year with partner Christina Jones, longed to be in the Rio pool himself but could not because mixed duets are not allowed at the Olympics.
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I possessed, too, an early inclination toward self-flagellation; not yet a teenager and readily repentant, I feared I might lose the gift God had given me — what I'd longed to receive from the people in my life: unconditional love.
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The man he longed to emulate was Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of independent Congo, whose hope had been to unify the vast country before he was deposed in 1960, and later murdered, with the connivance of Western powers.
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Just as warnings that Brexit would make people poorer failed to deter those who longed to claw back power from Brussels, those same arguments against Mr Corbyn's programme may not persuade voters determined to "take back control" of the economy.
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The podcast's originality lay precisely in cultivating that sense of discomfort: a listener longed to know not only what had happened to Simmons but also how Taberski would resolve the ethical dilemma of having subjected a faded celebrity to such scrutiny.
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He worked for a while as a draftsman, but he must have longed to fly again, and when he heard, through word of mouth in the Jewish community, that there were aviation opportunities in the new state of Israel, he went.
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Even though she was on track for a degree in home economics, which her parents had urged her to get — and which she earned at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) — she longed to be an actress.
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El Mago (Spanish for magician) is based on Ms. Lázaro's paternal grandfather, who has so longed to be reunited with his dead wife that he has devised various suicide strategies, and related them — with some humor, apparently — to the playwright's mother.
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In October 2016, Kavanaugh wrote an opinion concluding that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — an Obama-era creation that Republicans have longed to undo — was unconstitutional because of the limits placed on the president's ability to fire the director.
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This failed divine intervention happened on Saturday night, about 24 hours before the 44-210 Warriors shook off a slow start to defeat the Knicks, 230-2237, at Madison Square Garden in the annual Stephen Curry-Once-Longed-to-Play-Here Classic.
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But personally I think only one of them will — either Daenerys will be killed and Jon will be forced into the position of tragic ruler, or Jon will die and Daenerys will become the very thing she always longed to prevent: a tyrant.
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But it was ordinary people (chiefly men) that Housman longed to reach through his poetry, and thousands of soldiers in both world wars left home with copies of "A Shropshire Lad" in their breast pockets, where Housman hoped they might stop bullets.
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Written by Edward Albee and first staged in New York in 1994—it won that year's Pulitzer Prize for drama—the play, in this incarnation, stars an English actress I've longed to see onstage for all of my viewing life: Glenda Jackson.
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Walking down the streets of Havana on the 403th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, I inevitably drew toward me all those who longed to complain about their rulers, to escape them (or, in a few cases, to spy on me on their behalf).
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That's partly because she wanted to explain that when her father was stationed outside of Tokyo during the Korean War, he longed to meet the legendary potter Shoji Hamada, who turned out to be away — he was off in Cornwall, working with Leach.
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"I still feel like I'm this nerdy person that's a little bit shy," she said, alluding to her teenage "geek" self, who grew up in Milwaukee, took Advanced Placement classes and longed to be "the pretty girl" who got attention from guys.
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With a knack for showmanship the 54-year-old former Goldman Sachs banker created the get-together during the financial crisis when big banks were cancelling their outings but people still longed to get away to mingle and do a little gambling.
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Because as much as I have always longed to lose weight, believing that this would be the real key to my happiness, the reality is that losing my extra weight just gave me a whole new set of reasons to hate my own body.
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It was a project where fleeting moments carried the story: shouting matches during the first session of Congress; soldiers at the tomb of President Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013; letters from expatriates who had left Venezuela because of crime and longed to return.
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In her revealing interview with Diane Sawyer back in April, Jenner said she longed to wear polish outside of her home, and fans rallied around her by posting photos of their own manicures with the hashtag #PaintYourNailsforBruce (her former name while living as a man).
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What relevance can his life and work have in a world where nearly every socialist party long ago made its peace with capitalism, and at a time when his writings are read far more by academics than by the workers he longed to liberate?
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Although, as Mr. Hunter wrote, "I didn't long for an acting career, not in the way I longed to be on the ice or at the stables," Mr. Clayton brokered an introduction to Mr. Willson, who had cornered the market in wholesome all-American boys.
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Because schedules aren't quite as busy and you no longer have to begrudgingly tag along with your friends to a party you don't want to attend, now is the time to do all the things you've longed to do but haven't been able to.
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Instead, he longed to examine both the seductiveness of fascism for those who would be oppressors under it and the ways that most of us are only too happy to go along with horrible things, so long as they don't rattle our own status quo.
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"Suddenly, my fears and vulnerabilities as a young black girl eased, for as much as I admired Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I longed to see a black female face speaking out for our freedom, especially after the Birmingham bombing," White, an author, told NPR.
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Though I shared the brothers' curiosity about that black trunk and what its contents might reveal, I longed to see Attila and Robert outside the confines of Hermina's house, venturing into the city, experiencing Paris through eyes accustomed to the privations of Communist Hungary.
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But the substance emerges in the stories he tells about each location, conjuring up memories of drugged-out club kids, accidental headlining sets, and early run-ins with Madonna; he even takes us back to the gloomy Connecticut suburbs he so longed to escape while growing up.
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Along with historical maps, its chronology enables us to pinpoint the fateful intersection between Milosz's experience and historic events, showing a poet who was determined both to embody and to transcend his own historical circumstances, who longed to liberate himself from the times that entangled him.
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Maybe your radio-hit memories aren't of crappy alt-pop, but the many R&B groups who never found a real home on a major label, or the two-hit wonders who longed to be big in the Euro-club scene but never quite made it.
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This venture has been years in the making: Before he turned to fashion, Saunders studied product and textile design at the Glasgow School of Art and he has, at various times, longed to return to what he describes as its "more personal, more solitary" creative process.
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It felt silly to be in there, escaping from my escapism, and yet it turned out that I was a sucker for this simulacrum of upper-class island life: I longed to stay forever in fake-real Nantucket with Tabitha and Harper and Eleanor and Ainsley.
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She also longed to escape that world of convention, she told me, in her high-ceilinged, top-floor apartment in a Brooklyn brownstone—which she moved into, in part, because it's O.K. to smoke there, an eighties vice that she has carried into the new millennium.
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Going back to Lost for a second, many of the characters on that show just wanted off the mysterious island they'd crashed on, while John Locke was the guy who longed to explore the island's mysteries (for very good reason — he'd been paralyzed before landing on the island).
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The Games called out to the kid in Segel who had read portal fantasies and still longed to be told that he had been selected for some great endeavor — the kid who had ignored the rides at Disneyland in favor of roaming around Frontierland in a cowboy costume.
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I guess the best way I can describe this love is a kind of respect/admiration mixed with a burning desire for us to be best friends, like the way you longed to be best friends with one of the bigger, more popular kids when you were in school.
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Growing up deaf but sighted in Arizona, Mr. Tarango idolized old-school leading men like John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Burt Lancaster and longed to be a film actor himself — a hope that dimmed when he began losing his sight in his 20s because of Usher syndrome, a rare genetic disorder.
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He threatened to tell Anna Mayne that Jensen was in love with her: that he fantasized about running his hands through her hair, dreamed he saved her from burning buildings, that he longed to take a bullet for her and had already planned his final words in case he died in her arms.
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But they soon longed to get back out into the world, and when he found a job in Bangalore, India, providing micro energy credits to farmers in Southern India who wanted to install solar energy systems, the couple quickly jettisoned their conventional post-college pursuits for something with a bit more spice.
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As we're rocketing through this information superhighway like fish in a tube (remember when the people of Twitter longed to be salmon?), clasping onto bits of digital detritus just long enough to see if they spark joy before discarding them, trying to remember even last week's best meme can feel hilariously futile.
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"But now," Alcott writes, "he seemed to dwell, with peculiar warmth, and melody, upon the words 'There, there, might I go with thee / O, my beloved, go' and one listener was so thrilled by the tender invitation that she longed to say that she did know the land," and was ready to start packing.
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But we are never lifted out of such places, I think now, and so I went back to the bathrooms beneath N.D.K., I had never stopped thinking about them; even as I lay with R., flooded with love, there was a part of me untouched by him, a part that longed to be back there.
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In contrast to these Democrats, Trump displayed a rare moment of caution with a seemingly thought-out process; he shifted his thinking from the full-blown flavor ban he teased in September to a more measured compromise between adult vaping advocates and concerned parents who have longed to take down the vape giant JUUL.
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Pre-internet, when it was more difficult to compare climate stats, we kids were told our city was "colder than cities in Russia, but not some Russian towns," an odd distinction (plus pretty much untrue), but we longed to be the best, the most, the superlative at something, anything, clinging even to the dubious title of Murder Capital.
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I thought the streaming revolution would bring me all the wonders of the TV world, and I would have all the shows at my fingertips; a library vast and wonderful, a chance to see everything I had always longed to see, and even better, a chance to share all the weird minor treasures I'd adored in obscurity.
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To say you lived uptown, even if you rented in a white brick 1960s building on upper Second Avenue, was to suggest where you longed to be: in a duplex at 740 Park Avenue like the one designed by Mark Hampton for the corporate raider Saul Steinberg and his third wife, Gayfryd, the couple who defined the era's excess.
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In response, she and Alexander collaborated with a couple of young university graduates who longed to return to the land where their parents and ancestors had worked for generations as shepherds; now, their flock of Sardinian sheep roams Potentino's fields, producing milk for cheese as well as wool for the rugs and eccentric wide-brimmed felt hats made in the workshop.
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Sometimes he longed to be the foreman over the assembly line where fifty people put stoves together and drilled holes with drills and inserted screws with air-driven screwdrivers and sent them on down the line, because the press department was too loud for talk and almost too loud for thought, but Tiny had only two thoughts anyway and they were, Lord, I love her, Kentucky Tavern.
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All around me were metaphors for my own dislocation: a homeless woman squatting in the grocery-store parking lot, indifferent to the puddle spreading below her; the sparrows and pigeons, all sepia and brown, that replaced the scolding blue jays and scarlet cardinals I'd left behind; even the first deep snow, which all my life I had longed to see, was flecked with soot when it finally arrived.
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The president himself has long been animated by his resentments toward others, whether as a Queens-born real estate scion who felt slighted by the wealthy Manhattan elite that he desperately longed to join, or as the unexpected victor of the 2016 election who feels surrounded by enemies—Congress, the courts, the FBI, the press, the civil service, and more—and slighted by their lack of respect and admiration for his achievements.
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As my performance continued, the artificial confidence became natural, and I started speaking from my heart as I told the story of my experience as an immigrant woman, and I described how much I missed my father who had to travel back and forth every weekend to see my mom and me, and how disconnected I felt from my family, and how I longed to have a place I could call home.
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Those guys — they didn't even notice the garlic on Jamie's breath from his West Village slice because of their breath, which was sometimes filled with the smell of denture cream, government-job fatigue, recriminations, old hurts, old Broadway-show memories, old ballet-diva memories, scotch, but always they longed to trust people like Jamie — give him a place to rest because they knew they couldn't trust him — and for the lonely that often amounts to a kind of love.
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And, not alone,Artistic men prod dead men from their stone:Some of us have heard the dead speak:The dead are my obsession this week While other British writers such as Philip Larkin and Donald Davie tore into the 1950s with short, plain-speaking poems inspired by the staccato of jazz and modern life, he turned instead to the past: to the England of his grandmother, a working-class woman who spent her life making nails; to Robert Southwell and Edmund Campion, 16th-century Roman Catholic martyrs he longed to have known; and to Anglo-Saxon kingdoms buried deep beneath the soil of his beloved native Worcestershire.
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Its ensemble cast includes Helen Moses, 91, who falls in love with her neighbor, Howie, at a Bronx nursing home; Fred Jones, 88, who struggles to reach his third-floor walk-up apartment after gangrene claimed parts of two toes; Ping Wong, 90, originally from Hong Kong, who lucked into subsidized housing and fills her days with mah-jongg; Ruth Willig, 91, who must readjust after an unwanted move from one assisted-living facility to another; Jonas Mekas, 92, a Lithuanian-born filmmaker who dedicates his life to art; and the sad-eyed but dignified Sorensen, who has longed to die ever since Walter, his partner of 60 years, passed away in 2009.
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