Natalie Portman Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
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It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
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The work that I do with all of my characters is have some sense of where they come from. I kind of create my own story for myself. What's going on with my parents? Are they alive? Or family - do I have children? Do you see those things or not?
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My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
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I saw first-hand that all schools are not created equal, and the students shouldn't have to go without all of the materials that they need for a great education.
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Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
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You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
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It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.
