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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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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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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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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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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I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.
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I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
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It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
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The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.
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That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no.
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Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.
