Asa Larsson Quotes
The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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New York is my home.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
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I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.
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My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.
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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America.
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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.
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The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.
