"We all stood at half time peering out of the curtains, working out where everybody was, " said Hatty Preston, who had all the show's best comedic lines as Minty, a ditzy PA on a reality TV show.

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We all stood up, ready to leave.

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We all stood and cheered.

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Of course, we had people all over the world that stood up after this happened in New York.

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But the men and women of Congress stood fast, and we are all the better for it.

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We stood on the empty foundation where all you could see next to this giant levee that had been repaired -- all you could see were the cement foundations not unlike the podium that I stand on, for as long as you could see.

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We stood against the bar and Javier did all the ordering, including a glass of alcoholic cider for me, which the bartender poured from a bottle into a glass held apart as far as his arms could reach.

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But we stood to lose a million jobs -- not just in the auto industry, but all the suppliers, all the related businesses.

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As she stood up to leave there was a collective scraping of chairs from all around us and we realized that at least a dozen of our fellow diners were in fact photographers awaiting their moment to flash.

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