Natalie Portman Quotes
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
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I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.
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At first, we're learning for ourselves, ... We're looking for things that we'll work on for the classroom. We're piggybacking on what other people have already done, and then we will serve as a resource to other people.
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In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - I'm not a snob like that.
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I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
