Elle Fanning Quotes
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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I started out as a Democrat.
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it.
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Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.
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By all that's good and glorious.
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You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!
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I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.
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If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work.
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I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.
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We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.
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I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act.
