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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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.
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What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.
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It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.
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I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
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Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.'
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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.
