Natalie Quotes

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Eternity - waste of time.

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

Cooking a fantastic meal is therapeutic. I like the entire process-the chopping, the stirring. At the end, hopefully you get to enjoy a great meal with a friend or loved one.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl. Everyone forgets how young she is because she's so together, such an old soul. She just gets it. She's one savvy chick.

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.

I do yoga weekly. I don't know who I'd be without yoga and running.

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us, don't take us for granted!

I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.

Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times.

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

Touching clothes is just shopping foreplay, but it's changing. After all, you don't need to try a Mercedes to know that you'd like one.

Im an accidental entrepreneur.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

Only twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing - we have everything at our fingertips right now.

I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood

Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.