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"He's not playing a thinly veiled version of himself," Mark Duplass said.
Herbert White was a thinly veiled version of Hubert Voight, a legendary movie P.R. man.
That character is like a really thinly veiled version of me.
Hildyard's unnamed, first-person narrator is a thinly veiled version of herself.
"I like novels where the protagonist is a thinly veiled version of me".
Hammett's first novel, Red Harvest, concerns a labour dispute set in a thinly veiled version of Butte.
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"The autobiographical evidence is clear," Michael Hastings wrote in Salon when the novel was rereleased in 2004: "Both main characters are thinly veiled versions of O'Reilly himself.
But I do worry for those first readers who are confronted by thinly veiled versions of themselves, retreads of situations you recognise, the agonising worry that the characters' darker thoughts mirror that of your partner.
I walked down the hall of my high school passing out copies of a comic-book zine I drew, featuring a mock superhero called SuperEmily, who battled thinly veiled versions of my grade's reigning mean girls.
Elaine Stritch, the theatrical force of nature who died on Thursday at 89, was a foul-mouthed New York legend who seemed to deliver her best performances when she was playing thinly veiled versions of her irascible self.
Georges, played by the steely-eyed Siberian actor Andrei Panin, is a thinly veiled fictional version of Boris Savinkov, a Socialist agitator who wrote an autobiographical novel, "The Pale Horse," on which the film's story is based.
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