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“It was on my dream board, right next to ‘running a kick-ass theater company’,” he joked, of the UNC job.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2024
Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as Daniels, the film is an emotionally complex family drama wrapped inside a kick-ass sci-fi epic.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023
She points to "more vulnerable representations of women on screen when women are writing", adding she knows younger actresses who "lament the fact that they're always playing kick-ass characters".
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2022
In an exuberant finale, the actors engage in some kick-ass cosplay, battling against the patriarchy and their own self-destructive tendencies as glam-rock Power Rangers.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022
There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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