Barbara Lazear Ascher Quotes
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.
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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
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It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
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My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
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I expect people to at least use some thought.
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Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.
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I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.
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We are well rested and I think we appreciate each other a lot more now than we did in the past...
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My Ph.D. is in computer vision and machine learning. I developed software that can read your emotions from your face as part of my doctorate work.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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My brother and I used to try to derail a train over and over again. We didn't know any better.
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It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take. And that is a really scary and vulnerable place to be, so having those songs be embraced is the best feeling in the world. That's been our dream our whole lives.
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The hot, moist smell of babies fresh from naps.
