Uma Thurman Quotes
Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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Never talk when you can nod and never nod when you can wink and never write an e-mail, because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need.
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As always, it would be important to ensure that any fiscal policy changes did not compromise long-run fiscal sustainability.
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I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
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Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
