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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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.
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I want as much as I can to try and explore different roles and different characters; that's important to me to get involved in as many different parts as I can.
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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.
