Barbara Lazear Ascher Quotes
Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
Quotes to Explore
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You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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We were so busy that we didn't have time to think about how terrible it was or - in fact it felt strangely natural.
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The best comedians and the best rappers can make you laugh and can make you cry... I believe I've been blessed with that gift to make you do just that.
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I abhor hypocrisy.
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It's been great for me to play a real baddie.
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It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.
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The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)
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Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
