Natalie Portman Quotes
I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself. She was just a joy because I didn't have the stress of a male irritating me, and I vowed that I would make absolutely certain that between her and me there would be a clear line of communication at all times.
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If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
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And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.
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People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
