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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There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.
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The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.
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It is not a fun process to run full-tilt toward guys who are running toward you full-tilt.
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Plays are definitely the most difficult of them all. They are entirely a different category altogether. I don't have the courage to try out plays.
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As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
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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.
