Uma Thurman Quotes
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.
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Any neuroscience book is the death of me. I'm currently obsessed with 'The Moral Landscape' from Sam Harris. He's a controversial writer addressing science and religion while talking about the deep undertaking of your brain.
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Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
