Laura Dern Quotes
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.
