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“I'm a gym rat, I have to admit. I live in the gym, and now that I don't have to get beat up for a living, I can truly enjoy taking care of myself without worrying about breaking my leg or getting paralyzed.”
Source : "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 
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“Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.”
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“Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.”
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“When we sit in stillness, we are profoundly active.”
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“To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.”
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“Off stage, Im very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.”
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“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.”
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“Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains humanity as humanity must, in turn, sustain nature. Rationality alone, however, cannot be our guide in the task of restoring our environment. A spiritual connection to nature must inspire the emotional commitment that is the yin, complementing the yang of intellectual understanding.”
Source : Carl von Essen (2010). “Ecomysticism: The Profound Experience of Nature as Spiritual Guide”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
