Natalie Portman Quotes
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
