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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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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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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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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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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I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.
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The only thing I know for sure about the creative process is it always comes back. Magically. When there are no creative juices and nothing is coming to me - if I wait - it comes!
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I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.
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I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.
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If you work well, the country will be in good order, and it will be a blessing to the country. The country needs good care.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
