Natalie Portman Quotes

The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.

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• China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.

  

  Zhang Jindong
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• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

  

  Felix Dennis
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• At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

  

  Karl Jaspers
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• When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

  

  Maggie Q
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  • Love
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• My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
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• I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • World
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• I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Shoe
  • Takes

• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Ingenuity
  • Castro

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Medical
  • Bankruptcy

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Luxury is a state of mind.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Mind
  • State
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• There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Woman
  • Enough
  • Full

• To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.

  

  Gail Collins
  • House
  • Control
  • Serious

• Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • Joy
  • Training
  • Abuse

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • Soul

• The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Movie
  • Desire
  • Joy

• The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Soul