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" I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing. "
Laura Dern
Personality
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" I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me. "
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" At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that. "
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