Natalie Portman Quotes
I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.
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There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.
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When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
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I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
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A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.
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Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
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For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.
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El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.
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In some sense, not just the Gulf Coast was attacked but America's self-confidence.
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Through this entire process we always wanted what was best for Patrick, and in working with him we feel this is where he wants to be. We wish him the best with the Jets.
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It's a scene in Boston Harbor. It's in the Yellow Sitting Room on the second floor. And he always teased me about not having my name on it.
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Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.
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Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
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I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I can't do it!'
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I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
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I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.
