I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I donâ€™t have one.

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Plan About More Paranoid

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Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

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Average Blonde Blue Blue Eyes

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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

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Adolescence Convinced Everyone First

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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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Actor Business Crazy Dead

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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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Challenging Difficult Ever Extraordinary

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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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Beautiful Believe Even Me

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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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Better Cheats Does Relationship

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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.

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Answer Any Asked Because

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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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Basically Buy Got Job

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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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Before Boundaries Child Had

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It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

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Being Certain Certain Way Character

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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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About All Religions Am Buddhism

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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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Athletic Bright Funny Just

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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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Daughter Garden Hang Happy

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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

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Left Never Set Until

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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

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Austin Austin Powers Comic Like

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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

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Machine Me Options Sophistication

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I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

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Every Learned Mom Working

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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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Children Everything Family Flows

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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

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Almost Amherst Any Beautiful

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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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Active Actress Actually Around

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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

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Background Had Neat Parents

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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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Aggressive Also Defensive Female

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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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Be Real Character Find Heart

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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

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Adore Been Being Ever

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I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

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Classify Comedy Feel I Feel

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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.

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About Constantly More Paranoid

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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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About Blogs Care Interesting

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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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Amazing Amazing Experience Best Experience

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I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

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After Again Ever First

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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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Anymore Better Definitely Feel

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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

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Always Anyone Anyone Else Difficult

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I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I donâ€™t have one.

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Uma Thurman

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.

Uma Thurman

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.

Uma Thurman

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

Uma Thurman

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

Uma Thurman

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

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.

Uma Thurman

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.

Uma Thurman

It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

Uma Thurman

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

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.

Uma Thurman

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

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

Uma Thurman

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

Uma Thurman

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

Uma Thurman

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

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

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

Uma Thurman

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

Uma Thurman

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

Uma Thurman

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

Uma Thurman

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

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

Uma Thurman

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

Uma Thurman

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

Uma Thurman

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

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

Uma Thurman

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

Uma Thurman

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