Laura Dern Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.
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about his son Travis
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I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.
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Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
