Natalie Portman Quotes
I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
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It is ridiculous to think of the creation of the world as occurring on a certain date—say, in the autumn of 4004 B.C.E.! It is equally ridiculous to describe a creator as a vengeful, adoration-hungry patriarch who lives in the clouds and whose scowling, bearded face is guaranteed to frighten children and intimidate the pious. And indeed, it is just as ridiculous to go to the other extreme and postulate a quantum creator-god who is discernible only as a sort of fuzzy cosmic hologram of all there is.
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Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
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You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.
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I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
