Laura Dern Quotes
Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I feel comfortable at 154 lbs.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
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Leadership means setting a moral tone.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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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 feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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Right after college, I got really into St. Vincent. She just is so cool and out there. I think that's super-inspiring. And tone and mood-wise, I just love Patsy Cline and Ray Charles.
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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
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American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
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I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn't something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn't a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn't refuse.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
