Laura Dern Quotes
Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.
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I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of the time, and changing that language very radically was just a sign or a signal that I was going to try to do something very different. I find that that's what I feel closest to. I found no real inner response in me in a non-tonal language.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.
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Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.
