Elle Fanning Quotes

I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.

Elle Fanning

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• What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Want
  • Challenge
  • Media

• There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • You
  • Fight
  • Corruption

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Movies

• Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Financial
  • Divorce

• You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Moment

• In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Find

• Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Justice
  • Doing
  • Injustice

• Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Society

• My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • She
  • Mother

• I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Comfortable
  • How

• When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Me
  • Taken
  • Police

• I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Believe
  • Day
  • End

• I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Up
  • World
  • Giving

• I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Character
  • Change
  • Name

• I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Money
  • Moving
  • Talent

• I wasn't surprised to find Samsung's OLED screen to be bright, vivid, and clear. It's beautiful, although in viewing some photos and videos, I found, as I have in the past, that - to my eye, at least - Samsung tends to oversaturate colors.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Beautiful
  • Past
  • Colors

• I happen to be very good with younger actors because I have extremely vivid memories of that time of my life, and kids are just funny.

  

  David M. Evans
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.

  

  Demi Moore
  • Baby

• The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

  

  William R. Alger
  • May
  • Devil
  • Bullied

• The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Dream
  • Journey

• Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Success
  • Strong

• I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.

  

  Elle Fanning