Barbara Lazear Ascher Quotes
A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.
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It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them … One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. Dogs would pursue their natural lives in the wild … they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.
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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
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I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
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I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.
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President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale.
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My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.
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A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.
