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She calls it “the fearlessness while also being allowed to wobble and be clumsy, but always have wit and always have sharpness and clarity.”

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“Careful, you clumsy child, you will set yourself on fire.”

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Even the clumsy, unattractive, and bad-tasting dodos have occupied people’s thoughts far more in extinction than they ever did when they were alive.

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“Awful, clumsy, incompetent workmen! I shall have them all fired,” she fumed.

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"In films and comedy programmes it's funny to depict people who smoke weed as lazy and clumsy," said Jon.

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