Natalie Portman Quotes
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Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.
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I honestly don't even really want to think about it; I'd rather focus on how wonderful she is. Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate. I think we're lucky to have someone as smart and capable and strong as she is wanting to be our president.
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While Domald Trump chose a running mate, Mike Pence, who wrote a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper about how women shouldn't work because it's bad for the family. So we're really facing such a stark contrast between the candidates. Not to mention the vulgarity that Trump has been spouting about women for his entire life and continues to throughout his campaign. It's just a different world that we'd be living in if he won.
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It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.
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I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.
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I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world.
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I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.
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You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on social media that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.
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I've always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boys.
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The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.
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Hillary Clinton is incredibly prepared and smart on all of the issues.
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Actual plans for how we help the economy, how we help the environment, how we help deal with violence in our cities. These are things that Hillary Clinton has always brought the conversation back to, when he's gone vulgar and he's gone low.
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I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf.
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Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
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As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."
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It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. Donald Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.
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Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.
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In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.
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I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
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If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.
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Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.
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As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me.
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We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together.
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I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings.