Natalie Portman Quotes
I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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I like being unconventional.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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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 had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.
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I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.
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I don't think it's not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman - presenting yourself in a certain way.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
