Dakota Fanning Quotes
I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.
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Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.
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I love, loved, loved 'We Real Cool' by Gwendolyn Brooks.
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There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.
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There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.
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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.
