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.
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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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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.
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So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.
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There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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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.
