Natalie Portman Quotes
I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
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Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
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Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.
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’They are a very great boon to mankind, dentists,’ said Isabel. ‘And I’m not sure that we are grateful enough to them. I’m not sure that we even bother to thank them.’ She paused. Were there any statues of dentists? She thought not. And yet there should be.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.
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Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.
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I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.
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I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.
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My dad was very rough with us.
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I don't sleep with happily married men.
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When you look at 'policy wonk' in the dictionary, the one picture you won't see is Donald Trump.
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Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.
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When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.
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The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
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I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».
