Jack Kornfield Quotes
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
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One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. You have to learn how to talk to people and how to creatively achieve the same goals. I think it just hones your people skills.
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All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
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I love the things that you've given meI cherish you my dear countryBut sometimes I don't understand the way we play
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Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
