Laura Dern Quotes
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
Quotes to Explore
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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I am a just man.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.
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I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
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I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
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The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
