Elle Fanning Quotes

I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.

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• Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Action
  • Little
  • Effect

• 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.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Maybe

• All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Home
  • Enjoy

• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Friendship
  • Mask

• 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Rock

• Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • People
  • Heart
  • Interesting

• After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

  

  Samuel Horsley
  • May
  • Education
  • Government

• Boxing is a noble sport.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Boxing
  • Sport
  • Noble

• 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.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Friends
  • Doors
  • Iran

• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence

• 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.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• The hardest thing for me is to say no. I feel like a bitch. But sometimes I don't have a choice.

  

  Rihanna

• Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Powerful

• Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Done
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Black

• I don't enjoy hearing myself talk.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura

• My skin is dark and glows. It almost seems blue, and it's supersoft.

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • Dark
  • Blue

• I never thought of myself as a sex symbol. I just do the cover of magazines. I think it’s really unfair men or people in the world think you can’t be both – you can’t be a sex symbol and a serious businessperson. Who says I can’t be both? Who says I can’t do the cover of Maxim and run a production company? Women are complex. Women are beautiful and intellectual and spiritual and social and entrepreneurial. They’re everything. And I think I’m a great example of that.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • I Think
  • Cover
  • Entrepreneurial

• In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.

  

  Doona Bae
  • People
  • Free
  • Camera

• If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Money
  • Faith

• With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.

  

  Lee Pace
  • Time
  • Done

• I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.

  

  Elle Fanning