Dakota Fanning Quotes
I'm such a huge fan of television and what's happening in television, right now. You are able to visit characters and visit a story, week to week, push things in a different way than you can in a film, and you are able to go deeper, simply because you have more time. I'm just excited to do that. It's always good to do new things.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.
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Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
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I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm watching you' and 'I'm going to get you.'
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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There are so many different narrative traditions across the world, and each of those traditions has evolved dramatically over time. Once I understood that, I felt truly free; I could write and invent the way I wanted to because there never has been only one way to tell a good story.
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I'm such a huge fan of television and what's happening in television, right now. You are able to visit characters and visit a story, week to week, push things in a different way than you can in a film, and you are able to go deeper, simply because you have more time. I'm just excited to do that. It's always good to do new things.
