Elle Fanning Quotes
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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Boxing is a noble sport.
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I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.
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The hardest thing for me is to say no. I feel like a bitch. But sometimes I don't have a choice.
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
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There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students.
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I don't enjoy hearing myself talk.
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As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression. I like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music. Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques, I have tried at all times to subjugate them to a larger idea or a grander human feeling.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.
