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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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.
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The law of nature is that Truth alone triumphs-Satyameva Jayate. Our judiciary having spoken, I felt it important to share my inner thoughts and feelings with the nation at large.
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The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population.
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I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.'
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
