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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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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Music is always a creative process that comes from the heart. It's a feeling, a vibration, that we ride on.
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History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
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My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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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.
