Laura Dern Quotes
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.
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If we seek... nature, then love can be informed by truth instead of being based on ignorance or self-deception.
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I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.
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New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.
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Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
