I’d like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I’m willing to go through a lot.
NICOLE KIDMANIt’s very easy for a couple to experience joy together. But when you experience pain together, it can lead to such depth and such union. That is when you fuse.
More Nicole Kidman Quotes
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I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I’ve always felt is a sign of respect for others.
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Men don’t pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.
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If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.
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I’ll put it out there: I love getting hugs.
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Whatever you do in life, don’t give up on your own dreams.
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I’m interested in going places that I haven’t been. And I’m interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push me in different places.
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I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn’t get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn’t get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
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I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don’t think you ever abandon any of them.
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Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I’m very medical. I come from a medical family.
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I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.
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I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that’s what I’ve learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
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~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It’s always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~
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It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
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I’m now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.
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You’ve got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.
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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.
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I don’t like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.
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No matter how much you’re going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you.
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If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart.
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I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don’t like the feel of butterflies’ bodies.
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I’m a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I’m a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I’m betraying myself and my children.
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I don’t really make decisions, I go with the flow.
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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
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I think it’s important that we don’t all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything’s fine.
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Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it’s a beautiful life.
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