Laura Dern Quotes
It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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It's amazing how people will treat you better when you're 'somebody.' The minute clerks in a store recognize me, they suddenly rush to take care of me. That irritates me.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.
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It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'
