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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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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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 want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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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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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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One of the big mysteries about the black hole at the center of the galaxy is, 'Why don't we see emission from matter falling onto the black hole, or, rather, the black hole eating up its surroundings?'
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Enjoy the moment and appreciate what you have.
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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For me, the real goal is to integrate. The thing that I'm most happy with is the fact that I've been able to keep doing all of it - to keep writing, and to keep acting in movies, and to keep acting on the stage, to keep directing plays. I find that they feed each other, and that I learn about acting from directing and I learn about writing from acting.
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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.
