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A lot of exercise is mindless you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

Mariel Hemingway

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Mariel Hemingway
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: November 22
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Mill Valley
California
Mariel Hadley Hemingway
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