Laura Dern Quotes
I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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Think and grow rich.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.
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It is sad To see the light of beauty wane away, Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness; But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone, To lose hope, care not for the coming thing, And feel all things go to decay within us.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.
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I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
