Uma Thurman Quotes
I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
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I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
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If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
