Natalie Portman Quotes

I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.

Natalie Portman

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• Friendship
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• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Comfortable
  • Tendency

• I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • Loved
  • Old

• Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Film

• I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • Say
  • Very

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Good
  • Stress
  • Racing

• My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Great
  • Done
  • Kids

• Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Earth
  • Travel
  • Find

• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Family
  • Why

• 'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Movies
  • Favorite
  • Fargo

• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
  • You
  • Heard
  • Both

• Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

  

  Dan Kildee
  • American
  • Free
  • Support

• Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Trust
  • Artist
  • Save

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Mean
  • Restaurant
  • Belong

• The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Hope
  • Champion
  • I Can

• I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Believe
  • School
  • Teaching

• My priorities are still competing and achieving at the highest level, certainly. But to take a deep breath, or to try to enjoy the company of those around me, that's something that I'm trying to be aware of as much as possible.

  

  Nathan Adrian
  • Enjoy
  • Priorities
  • Achieving

• Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Father
  • Mom
  • Sister

• My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Life
  • Home
  • Science

• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Ability
  • Ego
  • Confident

• I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Brother
  • Child
  • Friendship