Dakota Fanning Quotes
I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I got no hate in me.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I've learned never say never.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.
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If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.
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My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
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I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
