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If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.


Laura Dern

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LAURA SCHLESSINGER Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER I love revenge.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you s...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its ow...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A me...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ...
LAURA ROBSON I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to...
LAURA ROBSON I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way to...
LAURA ROBSON If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to f...
LAURA ROBSON I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with fre...
LAURA ROBSON Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
LAURA ROBSON If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis tha...
LAURA ROBSON I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Mi...
LAURA ROBSON There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
LAURA ROBSON Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
LAURA RIDING If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer yo...
LAURA RIDING I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma...
LAURA RIDING Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which...
LAURA RIDING The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...
LAURA RIDING I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I kn...
LAURA RIDING I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thi...
LAURA RIDING To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar...
LAURA RIDING Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for...
LAURA RIDING We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of our...
LAURA RIDING I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic c...
LAURA RICKETTS My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian wome...
LAURA RICKETTS Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of a...
LAURA RICKETTS I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ...
LAURA RICKETTS When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent...
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