Tag: Uma Thurman
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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.
Uma Thurman
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I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn’t picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn’t a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
Uma Thurman
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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.
Uma Thurman
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it’s more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don’t practice or preach it, however.
Uma Thurman
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Even, today, when people tell me I’m beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
Uma Thurman
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you’re raising small children, your family means everything.
Uma Thurman
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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.
Uma Thurman
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don’t have one.
Uma Thurman
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
Uma Thurman
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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.
Uma Thurman