Natalie Portman Quotes

I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.

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• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Down

• I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Good
  • Know
  • Street

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Different
  • Me
  • Influence

• I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

  

  Babette March
  • Money
  • Myself
  • Army

• One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Hate

• If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Together
  • King

• I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Family
  • Baby
  • Busy

• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Important
  • Friends

• The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Personality
  • Forgiveness
  • Clarity

• I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Team
  • Proud
  • Chef

• My songs are about who I am.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Songs

• I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Out
  • Throw
  • Quickly

• I refuse to sit on my laurels.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Refuse
  • Sit
  • Laurels

• Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Good
  • Journalism
  • Last

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Patience

• Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • Air

• I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Good
  • Writing
  • She

• Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • People
  • Music
  • Changes

• The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Work
  • War

• My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Perseverance

• Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Mean

• I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Mean
  • Understand
  • Characters