Laura Dern Quotes
I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.
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If we have a phased redeployment where we're as careful getting out as we were careless getting in, then there's not reason why we shouldn't be able to prevent the wholesale slaughter I think some people have suggested might occur.
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Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see... its what I feel like.
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I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
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I don't often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
