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" Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence. "

Natalie Portman

Sex

Think

Innocence

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" I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer! "

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" I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show. "

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" I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right. "

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Say

Scared

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Push

Going

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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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Different

Classic

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