Natalie Portman Quotes
If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
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I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.
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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
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When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
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Can I remember- 'I remember lots,' I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.
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Sometimes it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public.
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I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.
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If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system.
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It seems to me,’ said Philippa prosaically, ‘that on the whole we run more risks with Mr Crawford’s protection than without it.
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If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.
