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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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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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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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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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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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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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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I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.
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What I've found recently is the heart, the soul, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't differentiate: If you really live the experience making a movie, it's the same as living it in real life, as crazy as it sounds.
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I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.
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I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.
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I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
