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 never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.
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Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.
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What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.
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I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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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.
