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BRUCE WILLIS MOVIE QUOTES |
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Dragons are covered in these; Saphira's in "Eragon" are blue |
scales
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Prized for its dark luster, it's the type of wood seen here |
ebony
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The F that begins Brahms' third symphony is personal code for the word frei, meaning this |
free
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Alexander Rostov is under house arrest in the Metropol, a hotel across from the Kremlin, in the novel "A Gentleman in" this city |
Moscow
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This "alert!" it describes a plunderer or a part of a plane's wing |
spoiler
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"Sorry, Hans. Wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy!, where the scores can really change?" |
Die Hard
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This notorious Wallachian prince was supposedly confined in dungeons at Turkey's Tokat Castle |
Vlad the Impaler
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To give someone the tools they need |
equip
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Of his own Third Piano Concerto, Prokofiev wrote of "lively" discussion of a theme, both the piano & this group having lots to say |
the orchestra
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This Ian McEwan novel follows the consequences of a lie 13-year-old Briony Tallis tells & her attempts to make up for it |
Atonement
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This alphanumeric U.S. plane began flights over the USSR in July 1956 |
(Maggie: What is a B-52?)
U-2
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"Dead people, like, in graves... in coffins?" |
The Sixth Sense
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In 1513, accused of being part of a conspiracy Niccolo Machiavelli was thrown into a dungeon in this city |
Florence
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In sociology this term describes the basic character of a culture |
ethos
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Ferdinand Laub, his Moscow Conservatory colleague, led the premieres of his 1st 2 quartets; his third, in 1876, was in Laub's memory |
Tchaikovsky
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2020 saw the release of "The Mirror & the Light", the end of Hilary Mantel's trilogy about this advisor to Henry VIII |
(Thomas) Cromwell
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Cirrus aircraft have one of these, not for a passenger but for the whole plane; it enabled the no-injury garden landing seen here |
a parachute
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"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead" |
Pulp Fiction
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Heretics awaited judgment at a secret prison called "The House of Dungeons" at Cartagena's Palace of this religious tribunal |
the Inquisition
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To insert a graphic or video clip into an email |
embed
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Roy Harris' Third was the first American symphony performed in this country, by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973 |
(Brian: What is the Soviet Union?)
China
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In books by Eoin Colfer, this 12-year-old is a millionaire, a genius & a criminal mastermind |
Artemis Fowl
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Capable of cruising at 1,350 mph, or Mach 2.04, this plane made its first transatlantic crossing on Sept. 26, 1973 |
the Concorde
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"If you pull that trigger, that bullet is just gonna bounce off me & I'm not going to be hurt" |
Unbreakable
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Hercules faced a dragon called Ladon as well as this many-headed creature in Lerna |
a Hydra
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It's from the Greek for "song of mourning" |
elegy
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His 1946 Third Symphony incorporates his "Fanfare For The Common Man" in its finale |
Aaron Copland
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Ken Follett says his most popular book is this novel about the building of a cathedral in 12th century England |
The Pillars of the Earth
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For 7 million "Pepsi Points", the company jokingly offered this vertical takeoff & landing jet, but a guy got the points & sued |
Harrier
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"Scientists. I'm supposed to report in to them. They'll want to know they sent me to the wrong time" |
12 Monkeys
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