Natalie Portman Quotes
When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.
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It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.
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When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
