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

• 'Livin' la Vida Loca' is not Latin music. It does not represent Latin music.

  

  Marc Anthony
  • Music
  • Latin

• Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Government
  • Progress

• I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • See
  • Hard
  • Discouraged

• Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

  

  Craig Brown
  • Children
  • Happy

• Don't make jokes about food.

  

  David Lean
  • Food

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

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Concerned
  • Relaxed