Laura Dern Quotes
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
D. H. Lawrence -
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass -
When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
Larry Brown -
There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
Omar Sharif -
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown -
When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
Yuna
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
Katee Sackhoff -
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
Laura Harring -
All men begin their learning with Homer.
Xenophanes -
God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
Laura Marling -
More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. Flay
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
Jaan Tallinn -
I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
A. Whitney Brown -
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
Xavier Dolan -
In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
Pankaj Mishra -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
Patrick Wilson
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
Calvin Johnson -
Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
Hans Frank -
I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is the same. They're doing it for you right now. It's an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be a transporting, too.
T. C. Boyle -
Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?
Plato -
As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long.
Sania Mirza -
I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
Laura Dern