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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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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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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Terrorism gets people's attention.
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My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive.
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
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Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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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.
