Dakota Fanning Quotes
Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
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There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don't get what's happening.
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Being patient ... and not becoming too stressed out over the big plays, those are the things to remember.
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Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.
