Laura Dern Quotes
My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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I think everything I've tried to do, whether or not it's come off that way immediately, is for the greater good. I'll take the jabs I need to in order to help us all in the long run.
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I market for the same reason a pilot keeps his engines running once he is off the ground.
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The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
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I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,The labor of an age in pilèd stones,Or that his hallowed relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
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My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.
