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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.

Mariel Hemingway

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Mariel Hemingway
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: November 22
Actor
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Mill Valley
California
Mariel Hadley Hemingway
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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.
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I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.
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Sometimes you can't see your way out. The dark night of the soul - it's a reality for many, many people.
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The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.
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People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.
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I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
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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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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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