Dakota Fanning Quotes
Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.
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I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.
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While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.
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Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.
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Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
