Natalie Portman Quotes
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.
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I'm not a good golfer. I don't have any hobbies, really.
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The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.
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This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.
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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
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I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
