Dakota Fanning Quotes
When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.
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I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
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It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character.
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Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
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You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.
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When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.
