Dakota Fanning Quotes
I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I had to work at everything.
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I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
