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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.

Uma Thurman

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Uma Thurman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 29
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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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I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.
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I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.
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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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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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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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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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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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Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.
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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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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.
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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.
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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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If you're not ready to be in a relationship, going out with someone much younger than you is probably a great idea, because you both can have a decent experience and hopefully nobody will end up feeling cheated when it ends.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.
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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'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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