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He`s similar to Dean but goes through a little bit more of a transition, ... At the beginning, he is very closed-in and isolated, but then he finds his gun (and names it) Wendy '” which he basically falls in love with. And it`s called `Dear Wendy` because he is writing these letters to the gun all the time. And he finds that this gun makes him become more powerful, and he kind of becomes a bigger person '” he can look people in the eye and becomes a lot more confident and things like that. And then, really, what the film takes on is about people finding their inner self.

- Jamie Bell

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren`t they? They`re always telling us what`s going to happen, and we know they don`t know!

- Tom Baker

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol`n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

- William Shakespeare

I`m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don`t do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don`t even do that any more.

- Dorothy Parker

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

- Omar Khayyam

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.

- Allan Kline

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham`s seed as truly as they.

- Andrew C. von Eschenbach