Laura Dern Quotes
Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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The leadership of Christine Rampone goes without saying. She is the definition of a what a leader is.
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We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
