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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Uma Thurman

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Uma Thurman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 29
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I think everybody has a hard time connecting, but as you get older and you want more and you expect more and you know more, it's just different. If you start wanting too much from it without it naturally unfolding, then that makes it bad. If you start not wanting anything, then you are not serious. I mean it's just this conundrum of issues.
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I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.
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It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.
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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
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Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
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Three tomatoes are walking down the street-a poppa tomato, a mamma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him and says, Catch up.
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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.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.
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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
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The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.
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Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.
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Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.
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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.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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