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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It's easier to control people when they're afraid.
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A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.
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I'm not very good in the rain. I don't wear a golf glove.
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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.
