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"You can be the cream of the crop one day and cold porridge the next - gone in a whim if you don't live up to expectations," he said.

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“I just remember sound effects — or specifically haunted mansion albums were just around. It was a little bit of a nagging whim. Like, ‘Huh, whatever happened to those?

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He doesn’t care what they think and is righteously angry that they won’t bend to his whims quite as readily as university presidents and elite law firms do.

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“These women were awaiting trial and had no way of escaping a predator who literally held the keys to their captivity and ordered them to perform at his every whim.”

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Prodigy views her as a machine built to fulfill her creator’s whims.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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