Natalie Portman Quotes

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me.

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• I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • World
  • Writing
  • Think

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Good
  • She
  • Sweet

• If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Complain

• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Changes
  • Ignore
  • Environmental

• We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Children
  • Value
  • Environment

• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Real
  • Fall

• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • People
  • Many
  • Loyal

• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • True
  • Action

• It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Book
  • Easy
  • Author

• Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • War
  • Inspired

• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Past
  • Action
  • Comforting

• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Different
  • Band
  • New York

• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Books

• The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Long
  • Job
  • Stop

• I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Life
  • Career
  • Support

• I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Media
  • Hospital
  • Riddle

• 'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

  

  Jennifer Damiano
  • Beautiful

• I'm convinced the question of development is mainly an issue of governance and leadership.

  

  Augustin Matata Ponyo
  • Question
  • Leadership

• I come from a small town in Ohio and was always into sports.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Small
  • Sports

• If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Write
  • Screenplay

• Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Day

• As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Concerned
  • Relaxed