Elle Fanning Quotes
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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Women are sacred.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.
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I've done it all.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
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I have crushes on women all the time.
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I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
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My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.
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I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.
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I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.
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I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.
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Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.
