Laura Dern Quotes

I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.

Laura Dern

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• I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Money
  • Father

• I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Love
  • Future
  • Dance

• Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Music
  • Expect

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Interest
  • Bookstores

• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
  • Brooklyn

• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Truth
  • Brain
  • Details

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Love
  • Book
  • Night

• Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Live
  • Water
  • Quality

• The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Habit
  • Speech

• You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Home
  • Find
  • Vacation

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

  

  Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band
  • Music
  • Together
  • Style

• As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

  

  Lisa Whelchel
  • Up
  • Writing

• Most grain foods, whether we're talking about quinoa, amaranth, the very popular grains of the day - the reality is they still are associated with a carbohydrate surge.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Reality
  • Popular

• Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

  

  Martin Parr
  • World
  • Work
  • Photography

• I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Empathy
  • Bold