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North West is a free spirit in fashion, no matter what anyone thinks.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025 -
Below, Bruni Tedeschi and Marcello speak to Variety about why Duse’s free spirit and non-conventional feminism, coupled with her talent, are so relevant today.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
11 Sep. 2025
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As Kissinger understood, even lone rangers need friends.—
MARGARET MACMILLAN,
Foreign Affairs,
21 July 2025
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And while his rivals have landed serious blows against him, he’s embraced the tabloid-style frenzy at each of those junctures, incorporating them into his narrative identity as an underappreciated lone ranger constantly battling the world.—
TIME,
TIME,
7 May 2024
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As one of the world's most dangerous assassins, the mysterious lone wolf is torn between providing for his increasingly at-risk family and keeping one step ahead of global intelligence agencies.—
Griff Griffin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Oct. 2025
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Sigma: This term refers to an independent or self-reliant person who operates outside traditional social hierarchies, like a lone wolf.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Some are invite-only, but others in Vidigal or Rocinha welcome outsiders through local tour companies.—
Aaron Randolph,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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Isaacman, 42, is seen as a relative outsider to lead the space agency.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
5 Nov. 2025
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Taken together with Scorsese’s own unvarnished self-assessment, these conversations transcend Behind the Music clichés to create a portrait of the artist as a man whose path from brash enfant terrible to beloved eminence was paved with introspection.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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Still, Scherzinger was fascinated with the way the enfant terrible’s brain worked and his ability to attract a new generation of theatergoers to London’s once-stodgy West End.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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Burr plays a gruff American record-store owner who convinces a ragtag gang of teenage misfits that their best, and possibly only, chance to lose their virginity before graduating high school is at a massive open-air mass for the visiting Pope.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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For a series about misfit intelligence operatives doggedly refusing to live up to even the lowest level of their potential, Apple TV’s Slow Horses is remarkably self-actualized.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Oct. 2025
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Based on actual events, Eden features a starry cast playing a disparate group of rugged individualists who all find themselves in the Galapagos in the early 20th century, each abandoning society in the hopes of creating a utopia.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Although Americans are individualists, we’re still expected to go home for the holidays and to cite our parents as our greatest sources of inspiration.—
Anesce Dremen,
Longreads,
3 July 2025
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United leaned towards Tuchel and De Zerbi — the latter considered a bit of a maverick but ultimately a top coach.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
1 Nov. 2025
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Most of our mavericks who fly that close to the sun never get to see that journey through.—
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
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