Natalie Portman Quotes
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I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.
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Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.
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As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
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You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.
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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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I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.
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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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Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.
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It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people.
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Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.
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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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I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.
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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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I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.
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I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.
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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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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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Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.
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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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Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.
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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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And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.
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It's a lot easier to make friends when you're younger, because kids are a lot less judgmental than adults. They're more like, "O.K., let's be friends." Not, "So, what's your job?" "What's your marriage status?"
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I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.