Dakota Fanning Quotes
One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.
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One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.
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I would hate it if my four boys were bullied as I was.
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In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
