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'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
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My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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It's interesting to see what's going on with physics these days because they're starting to come out with stuff that sounds remarkably like Buddhism and even more specifically like the ancient Hindu Vedas. Physics isn't necessarily saying the exact same thing but I think eventually it will merge.
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Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'
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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.
