Natalie Portman Quotes
Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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I love books.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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Music is how you feel.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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The government must understand that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall development outcomes of Indian citizens with 'efficiency gains.'
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I was just fighting dwarves then hit my knee really hard.
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Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?
