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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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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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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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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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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I don't have time to be depressed.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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I just write and do what I think is funny. Sometimes, you do have it in your head about certain bits. There are certain jokes where I know if I did them in certain situations, it would irk people. There are times where I look at the news and see a story going on, and I'm like, 'Wow, if I tweeted this, I would get press if I wanted to.'
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But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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I own the complete DVD set of all the Audrey Hepburn movies ever made.
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Anyone can put anything out at any point and make anything by themselves.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.
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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.
