Laura Dern Quotes
David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
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What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
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I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it.
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I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
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The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.
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Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.
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David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.
