Laura Dern Quotes

In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

Laura Dern

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• Love is a beautiful feeling.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Culture
  • Attention
  • Mission

• Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Children
  • American
  • Best

• Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Easy

• I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Culture

• Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Feeling
  • Light
  • Door

• I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Hand
  • Cat

• Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • American
  • Chaos

• I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • American
  • Immigration

• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • Tradition

• I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • American
  • Looking

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Experience
  • American
  • Design

• 'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Deep

• The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • American
  • Government
  • Nation

• It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Culture
  • Learn
  • Chinese

• Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • American

• My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Body
  • Will
  • Back

• I've always loved California; I'll probably always live here on the West Coast, at least long-term. But I do love coming to New York. The energy is totally different, and I always have a lot of fun there. I always end up staying up all night! I look at my friends, like, "How do you guys do this every day?"

  

  Chelsea Wolfe
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'David Copperfield,' and I forgot how scared and tired I was, and I thought, 'This is what reading should be.' I'm utterly transported out of my current situation.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Reading
  • Tired

• Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

  

  William Shatner
  • Youth
  • Resources
  • Ultimate

• In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • American
  • Culture
  • Feeling