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To be put in a position at 15 where people are saying how sexy you are is really awkward, so I did all I could to try and diffuse that. It`s only now that I`ve started to feel like I`ve become a lady.

- Alicia Silverstone

Usually? I don`t even consider myself usually. Soccer mom, that`s what I consider myself. Yeah, I think I`m a funny person. I started out in comedy. You know I remember the moment I realized the value of comedy is when I was eight years old and I was sitting in class and I realized that if I just acted really stupid, I could get away with a lot of stuff. And it would diffuse a lot of tension and the teachers would focus on you. I just found out the value of being a funny dunce at times.

- Lucy Lawless

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don`t mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

- Colin Baker

(Later that day, Matthew and James Wells drove to Moscow.) They said they didn`t come over with the intent to kill anybody, ... Both of the Wells brothers had played college ball and were going to try and intervene and diffuse the problems.

- Bill Thompson

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush`d or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

- Oliver Goldsmith