Laura Dern Quotes
People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.
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The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.
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I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that are good, really. I think that's all you can aim for. I find it odd when actors say they just want to do films or plays or television. A lot of films aren't very good; a lot of television isn't very good; a lot of plays aren't very good.
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I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.
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I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.
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People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.
