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«[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, he seemed nervous about meeting everyone, about fitting in.»

Author: Karen Allen (Actress) | Keywords: Animal House, astonishingly, filmed, film star, fitting, John Belushi, shy

«I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.»

Author: Annie Dillard (Author) | Keywords: appalls, astonishingly, bountiful, careless, crushing, extravagance, extravagances, fecundity, include, teeming with, ubiquitous

«The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.»

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Sex | Keywords: astonishingly, catchword, catchwords, rift, rifted, sexes, The Boys, widened

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