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.
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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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Terrorism gets people's attention.
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I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.
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Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.
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I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
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It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.
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I could become a Gold Glove-caliber shortstop. Not as talented as Vizquel, but definitely on par with Jeter.
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From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.
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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.
