Lauren Alaina Quotes
I got really tired of fighting who I am, and I did that for a really long time; I was trying to be this perfect girl, perfect family, perfect body, and those people aren't real.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.
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When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to 'vote as you shot' kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat - Grover Cleveland - won the White House.
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Medicine is about disease and what makes people die. Chiropractic is about life and what makes people live.
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I have a lot to say about Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton that has not been said by others recently and that I think needs to be said. I mean I've known her for 40 years. I worked with her, I know her well professionally. I know her well personally. I know her to be a person of high moral character. A reliable person and an honest person, however Mr. [Donald] Trump may rant and rave to the contrary. So I'm happy to say that. People can make their own choices.
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I got really tired of fighting who I am, and I did that for a really long time; I was trying to be this perfect girl, perfect family, perfect body, and those people aren't real.
