Natalie Portman Quotes
There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
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I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.
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Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
