Dakota Fanning Quotes
My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.
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It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
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When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.
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What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.
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Itch to read, scratch to understand.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
