I've taught at Harvard, Dartmouth and Vassar, and I've had the privilege of teaching a lot of very bright kids. There are very few who are as inherently bright as Natalie is, who have as much intellectual horsepower, who work as hard as she did. She didn't take a single thing for granted. (Natalie Portman)

I've taught at Harvard, Dartmouth and Vassar, and I've had the privilege of teaching a lot of very bright kids. There are very few who are as inherently bright as Natalie is, who have as much intellectual horsepower, who work as hard as she did. She didn't take a single thing for granted.

Natalie Portman

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