Natalie Portman Quotes
The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.
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As a veterinarian and lover of animals, I feel the time is now to stop the practice of horse soring for good.
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My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.
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The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.
