Laura Dern Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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You are going to hit some good shots and not get rewarded, but that's just U.S. Open golf. It's tough; it's hard.
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I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.
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The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.
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Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
