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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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Uma Karuna Thurman
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To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.
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I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
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We're in an environment where everyone gets compartmentalized very quickly.
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It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.
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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.
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I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
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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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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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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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I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.
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~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~
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It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
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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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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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Daring to me is having courage it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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