I was really popular up until 13, really outgoing and bossy, and never worried about seeming it. - Natalie Portman
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture. - Natalie Portman
Just sitting in a room until 4 a.m. and listening to some other kids talk about what they have done in their lives is just the greatest learning experience I have ever had. - Natalie Portman
I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad. - Natalie Portman
I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid. - Natalie Portman
Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice. - Peter Dinklage
I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger... I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like. - Peter Dinklage
Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not. - Peter Dinklage
My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system. - Winona Ryder
I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films. - Winona Ryder
I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not. - Abraham Lincoln
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words. - Albert Schweitzer
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. - Albert Schweitzer
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Connect with
Login with Facebook