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thought up

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I usually take no notice of reviews unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now. Robert Mitchum

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. Alan Moore

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel. Suzanne Collins

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward. Jim Morrison

It was an eccentric sort of event, even for Esmeralda, and needed a special kind of person to volunteer to do it. Luckily, the human race has never thought up anything so ludicrous, dangerous, and frivolous that it won't attract many willing volunteers. Robert Sheckley

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid. Freddie Mercury

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