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'd love to do a period piece.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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'Tum Jo Mile' came as a surprise. Vivek and Kumaar sir, who has written the song, sent me the track just to listen. I was in London at the time for my world tour. I heard the song, and I fell in love with it instantly.
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At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.
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There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.
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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.
