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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
Uma Thurman
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Uma Thurman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 29
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Uma Karuna Thurman
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.
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Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.
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You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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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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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.
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I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.
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More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.
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