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"My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down."
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"My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning."
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"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
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"I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together."
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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
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"I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end."
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"Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad."
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"We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around."
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"I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears."
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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form."
Art
"If I have enough money to eat I'm good."
Money
"I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be."
Father
"You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up."
Career
"So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect."
Time
"I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman."
Love
"I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to."
Dating
"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need."
Personality
"I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting."
Golf
"I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot."
Film
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