"Luckily, I was raised by people whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job."

-- Laura Dern

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“I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.”
“A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.”
“I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.”
“There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.”
“Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.”
“I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion indicate) can occupy one severely enough; likewise, in mathematics, the meaning of imaginary quantities, of the infinitesimally small and infinitely large and similar matters.”
“Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.”
“I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember; but it was all no good... bread and water was a welcome change to me from the everyday monotony of potatoes and bread-and-butter. After a sound drubbing followed by half a dayâ€™s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.”

Source : Stijn Streuvels (2005). “The Path of Life”, p.10, 1st World Publishing

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