Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness. ”

My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her. ”

I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that. ”

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors. ”

I think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing. ”

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too. ”

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world. ”

I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed. ”

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that. ”

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction. ”