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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

Dakota Fanning

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it’s rare that you get to explore that in a film.
DAKOTA FANNING

Communication Energy Eye
It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
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Actors Cool Made Really
I’m always able to find light moments on any set, no matter what. Just because a scene is heavy doesn’t mean that you have to be heavy, all day long. I was working with people who had a sense of humor and wanted to have those light moments with me.
DAKOTA FANNING

Light Long Mean
It’s hard to remember when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That’s so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who’s sometimes in those magazines.
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Insecurity Looks People
People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or maybe they were born too tender.
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Heart Lonely Mean
Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can’t have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.
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Dear Giving God People
My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
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Jobs Mind Thought
I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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Actresses Ballerina Two
It’s what I love about what I do and the life that I’m able to have and be able to just be so normal one day and be here the next…I feel so lucky to be able to do what I do.
DAKOTA FANNING

Able Day Next One
I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
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School Two Young
I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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Beach Girl Hats
You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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Friend Our Family Stay True True
I’m very proud to be a woman – you’re part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That’s really special.
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Proud Special Tribes
I played the young Reese Witherspoon in ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.
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Boys Home Sweet
My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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Forever Friends Sane
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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Actresses Andrew Country Favorite Person

I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

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