Elle Fanning Quotes

I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.

Elle Fanning

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• To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Situation

• I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Try
  • Take Advantage

• Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Good
  • Cool
  • Story

• I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Music
  • Christmas
  • Loved

• I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Want
  • Meat

• I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Confidence
  • Television

• I have no ill will about anything.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Will
  • Anything
  • Ill

• Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Great
  • Heart
  • America

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Why
  • Think
  • Know

• World Cups can be career-defining.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Career
  • Cups

• I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Real
  • Family

• At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Time
  • Money
  • Business

• By 2013, at the age of 29, I was failing. I had left two good jobs in succession to complete a novel I'd been tooling around with since 2009, had enrolled in a graduate programme in Texas, as far away from home as possible, to finish it - and yet: what did I have to show for it after five years of work?

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Home

• There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Future
  • Pretty
  • Running

• If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature
  • Bird

• A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more effectively practiced could then produce a genuinely spiritual nation of people.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • American
  • Help

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• Power may be defined as the production of intended effects.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Power

• As a ballplayer, there is no Christian way to swing a bat. There is no Christian way to swing or throw.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Christian

• I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • Time
  • Wisdom

• I have role models, but I take the attributes of the people that I admire, and I use them to create my best self.

  

  Marley Dias
  • People

• One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

  

  Mary Lou Williams
  • Family
  • Home
  • Support

• I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.

  

  Elle Fanning