Dakota Fanning Quotes
I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.
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Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When I am in my composing mode, I go into my studio and turn that part of my brain on like a faucet. And when I finish, I turn it off. But with songwriting, that process is much more elusive.
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You often have a great director who's like, "Well, actually I don't even want to reveal you until the end of this scene" or something like that and it totally changes everything that you thought it was going to be.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
