She's cool with that, and so am I.

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But let's face it she's managed to reinvent herself and is cool these days.

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But if she's kind of like cool, you can blend it right in the conversation to get her open, help the conversation out.

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And, she said, it's just cool not to follow the herd.

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If not, it's at least very cool that she did many of her own stunts for the flick.

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Patricia Barber sings with a cool, insinuating delivery, as if she's whispering in your ear over a very dry martini in a smoky dive.

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"We absolutely believe that water that's cool and clean is necessary for the survival of salmon, " she said.

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Trying to conserve her energy, she barely qualified for the final ("Definitely a little bit of a scare, " she said.) She didn't have enough time for a proper cool-down, so as her U.S. teammate Ryan Lochte swam to a fourth-place finish in the men's 200-meter freestyle, Franklin swam slow, lonely laps by herself in the adjacent diving well, trying to lower her heart rate and ready for her main event.

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