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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Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
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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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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.
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Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.
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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.
