Mariel Hemingway Quotes

• Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

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• Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

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• When child actors act well they’re just reacting to situations, and they’re acting very real because their life experience is so short; there’s no history to fall back on.

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• What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I’d react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

  Mariel Hemingway

• What I wasn’t prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn’t prepared for the initial feeling of I don’t want to have to do that again. I was scared.

  Mariel Hemingway

• Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

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• We’re taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can’t.

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• The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they’re powerful, and they’ve completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.

  Mariel Hemingway

• The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me – though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

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• Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

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• Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that’s my job. It’s no one else’s.

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• My problems aren’t so different from anybody else.

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• Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.

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• It’s not that I don’t believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they’re real.

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• I’ve known for years that you’re supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what’s happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I’m not present.

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• I’m not that old, and I haven’t lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

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• I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

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• I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

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• I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That’s before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

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• I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

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Mariel Hemingway (36)

Birth:	22nd November, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Writer

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