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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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Natalie Portman
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: June 9
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Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.
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