Laura Dern Quotes
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
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I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.
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Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.
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We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.
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Artur Schnabel, one of the towering pianists of the twentieth century. Modified in tone but not spirit from Schnabel’s interview remarks in Chicago the same year Germany surrendered to the Allies. She also knew this was about as high a compliment as Paul Mandelbaum was capable of making. Schnabel’s performances of the thirty-two Beethoven sonatas were possibly the only thing her mentor was capable of carrying on about ad nauseam. You were never going to enter his pantheon of star pupils unless you gave yourself over, heart and soul, to Schnabel’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Klaviersonaten and the virtuoso’s idea that the greatest music was that which is “better than it can be performed.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.
