Dakota Fanning Quotes
I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
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I can do whatever I want.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated.
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Remember the first rule of gunfighting... 'have a gun.'
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
