Natalie Portman Quotes
There were, like, 20 of Jackie Kennedy's biographies, which was interesting because they are not exactly high literature - they are pulpy.But the Arthur Schlesinger transcripts ended up being the most useful of anything.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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I know what poverty is.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.
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Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people.
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Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.
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There were, like, 20 of Jackie Kennedy's biographies, which was interesting because they are not exactly high literature - they are pulpy.But the Arthur Schlesinger transcripts ended up being the most useful of anything.
