Uma Thurman Quotes
I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
Quotes to Explore
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I like to discover new things.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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Duty is with us ever; and evermore forbids us to be idle. To work with the hands or brain, according to our acquirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
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If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!
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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
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People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.
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I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.
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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
