Natalie Portman Quotes

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

Natalie Portman

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• My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.

  

  K. Flay
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Dad

• We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Faith
  • Young
  • Explain

• For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Know
  • Year
  • Construction

• I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Believe
  • She
  • Mother

• We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Father
  • Boat
  • Copy

• I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Unexpected

• The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.

  

  Vanessa Ferrari
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Car

• Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Football
  • Group
  • Leg

• Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Success
  • Like
  • Look

• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Different
  • You
  • Kind

• Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Change
  • Opinions
  • Roots

• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Time
  • Enemy

• After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Home
  • Proud
  • New

• Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

  

  Kate Millett
  • Place
  • Privacy
  • Keeping

• With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Money
  • Focus

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
  • Violence

• The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • School
  • Family

• Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

  

  David Hilbert
  • Science
  • Maturity

• I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

  

  Ken Jennings
  • Weird

• I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Exist