Asa Larsson Quotes
I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.
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Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.
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When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let's get back to letting every American choose the plan that's best for them and their family.
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Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.
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People pulling 16-hour days on a regular basis are exhausted. They're just too tired to notice that their work has suffered because of it.
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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
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I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.
