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.
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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.
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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?
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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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.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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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?'
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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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.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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Swarm intelligence is like a brain of brains.
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There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.
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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.
