Dakota Fanning Quotes

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

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• When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Live
  • Remember

• As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Key

• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Parent

• I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Car
  • Stress
  • Window

• Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Painting
  • Movement
  • Analysis

• I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Moment

• I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Why
  • Want
  • Loudest

• If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Time
  • Government

• I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Like
  • Trump
  • Silent

• These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Everything
  • Media
  • Turn

• Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • People
  • Truth
  • Understand

• A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'

  

  Frank McCourt
  • People
  • World
  • She

• I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Money
  • Pretty
  • Support

• We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Truth
  • Wounds
  • Possible Idea

• I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking