Portman has benefitted from some of her oddball choices and her passion for Black Swan certainly helped the film get made and earn the kudos and box office cash that it has brought in so far.
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It involves a likeminded group of people banding together around a shared idea or passion, and usually trying to bring about some type of change.
Some of today's best world music acts spring from the discovery of an obscure passion.
After we had been married for a year and some of the energy had gone out of the relationship, I did wonder if my passion might have been pumped up by the competition for her.
Fisher told me that he keeps his company based in Michigan because of the determination and passion that he sees in people around the area trained at some of the best universities in the country.
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On issues like these, Ted Kennedy's passion was born not of some rigid ideology, but of his own experience -- the experience of having two children stricken with cancer.
Certainly some entrepreneurs report that passion is a central part of their experience and a primary motivation.
We recognize that some decisions may be difficult to accept in the passion of the moment, but my most important responsibility is to improve the game for this generation and the next.
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Out of Mr Reich's passion and hyperbole come some images that ring true enough.
Since raising millions for Ethiopian famine victims by masterminding the Live Aid campaign, Geldof's passion to better the lives of those living in some of the poorest countries has not dampened.
It followed a familiar script, one which rather sums up these two teams right now: Liverpool took the field with plenty of passion, but reaped less than it sowed because of some elementary mistakes.
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Concerns that arose among some Jewish groups over his handling of the story of Jesus in "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004 were replaced by widespread condemnations two years later when Gibson was arrested on a drunk driving charge.
His speech, like the others, was long on stories and short on policy, and given that he delivered it with all the passion of reading the phone book, why not give us some policy?
"I'm not optimistic about our economic future as a country, but as far as me and my journey to find happiness, and accomplish some of these goals that I've had -- weight loss and following my writing passion -- absolutely, I'm still really positive about it, " she said.
Some of his most entertaining passages pertain to his editing by the New Yorker, whose fussy style guidelines and passion for commas drove Thurber wild.
And I thought some of the individual players showed up much better in the second half, there was a lot more - passion isn't the right word, but something like that.
Those ideals should include acceptance of the fact that that today, some human disabilities, when fought with enough ingenuity, teamwork, and passion, can become transformative.
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