Natalie Portman Quotes
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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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 was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
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Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.
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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
