Ian Gawler Quotes
Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.
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Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.
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When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.
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For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.
