Natalie Portman Quotes
The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.
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I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
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The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.
