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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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"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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"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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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."
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"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."
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"I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't."
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"Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along."
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"In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me."
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"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
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"The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled."
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"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
Management
"I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career."
Career
"My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city."
Father
"In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president."
Time
"Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich."
Technology
"I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents."
Leadership
"A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art."
Art
"Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators."
Time
"However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library."
Home
"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
Nature
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