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 followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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I've always been a very harsh judge of talent because if you don't play the game on both ends of the court, and if you don't play hard every night, I'm probably not going to be in love with you as a player. I'm going to respect you because you're good, but these players are unique.
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Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.
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The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us - men I had grown up with, had played with.
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In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?
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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.
