Natalie Portman Quotes
I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me.
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The writer works in a lonely way.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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What do you mean 'gangsters'? It's business.
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The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they’re not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.
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All that glitters is not hovery.
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Real revenge is making something of yourself.
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As a singer you're a great dancer.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.
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These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.
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We are programmed; we are literally programmed genetically and then we are programmed environmentally and most people never break out of that programming.
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I was in a fever to get out from behind the plate. Oh boy, I was terrible back there.
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I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me.
