I dig my heels in every now and then, and think ‘I’m not going to do what’s expected or what people think is the right thing.’ So I have a little bit of that in my personality.
NICOLE KIDMANIt took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
More Nicole Kidman Quotes
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I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.
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I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It’s almost as if you’re drawn to it.
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Whatever you do in life, don’t give up on your own dreams.
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Ultimately, you’re left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.
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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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There’s something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There’s something very there’s safety in that.
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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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I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.
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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.
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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 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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You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.
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The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
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You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you’re starting again.
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I love acting but I don’t like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.
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