Laura Dern Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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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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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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What I really would like to see is more female stories out there. Particularly older female stories, because women are predominantly ticket-buyers.
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I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.
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Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
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I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
