Laura Dern Quotes

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

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• When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Wrong

• That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Better
  • Everyone

• I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • School
  • Home
  • Workout

• When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Hope
  • Free

• If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • You
  • Mistake

• I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • God
  • True

• Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Done
  • Look
  • Disney

• I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Pretty
  • Negative
  • Digital

• I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Data

• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Concrete

• I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Always
  • Poet
  • Reminds

• What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Important
  • Simple
  • Evolution

• All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Love
  • Art

• I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Father
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden

• I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • People

• The end of 2016, Mariah Carey got on stage, and it was mean. The technical difficulties that she came across, now everybody think that she was lost.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • She
  • Lost

• Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Mind
  • War
  • Political

• Then, aware once more of her obligation, she asked politely: “You only wrriter, or your work also?” “I hope to teach English one day.”

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Work
  • English
  • Obligation

• There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Pleasure
  • More
  • Still

• Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What psychedelics are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Different
  • Drug
  • Perception

• He knew everything about girls, he knew everything about drugs, and he knew an awful lot about music, and I become interested in all three of those things.

  

  Merck Mercuriadis
  • Music
  • Things
  • Interested

• I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Interested
  • I Was Raised