Natalie Portman Quotes
I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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I do what I can do to help my defense.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.
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Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.
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While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to their present game-day effort. I stressed the fact that today's performance could be the most important of their life. Yesterday's performance was already history. Tomorrow really never comes, so today's performance is what really counts.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.
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The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
