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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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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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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From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be in show business!
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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Fortunately, I never had to do the waiter thing. When I got out of college, I immediately started to teach acting. One of the first jobs I had was in a federally-funded program where I taught drama to young people.
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Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
