Dustin Clare Quotes

#1. I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

Dustin Clare

#2. I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

Chantal Joffe

#3. Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.

Ajahn Sumedho

#4. I think the most challenging aspect was keeping up the degree of physical fitness you need while filming a major leading role in a primetime U.S. series. You have very little time to sleep and eat, let alone train.

Dustin Clare

#5. I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.

Dustin Clare

#6. Try to remember. Have you ever felt mercy in your heart where there was once hatred? Peace where there was once turmoil? Love where there was once greed and lust? Humiliation where there was once self-righteousness?

Vincent Cheung

#7. Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Herodotus

#8. Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

Dustin Clare

#9. I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

Tracey Ullman

#10. I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

Dustin Clare

#11. The rig work can be rewarding to pull off, a really good rig in a set of wires where you're throwing yourself up walls and doing moves mid-air. That's just fun.

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#12. Only when you slice your soul open and let it bleed
and bleed
and bleed
will you finally see your passion.

Rae Jones

#13. LAYLA: "You boinked Lilith."
ROTH: "Boinked?" Roth chuckled under his breath and then said, "God, I love you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#14. We have researchers involved with the show [Spartacus] and they pointed me in a pretty great direction, in terms of what to read, and what to look at or look for, and they also provided me with some material.

Dustin Clare

#15. All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

Tommy Lee Jones

#16. 'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

Dustin Clare

#17. You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

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#18. I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

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#19. Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

Anne Lamott

#20. When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.

Dustin Clare

#21. Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

J.B. Priestley

#22. Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.

Paula Deen

#23. Imperfection is true perfection.

T.A. Uner

#24. New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

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#25. I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

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#26. I'm such a fan of Deadwood. I love the characters in that. They're such wonderful characters. I'm a fan of The Wire. Those are all heavily character-based shows.

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#27. Being the new guy's always great because you get to go in fresh with your own choices and you get to bring new life and breath and a new energy into something that's already established.

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#28. The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#29. The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

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#30. I'm singing and dancing and playing guitar. I really enjoy pushing myself into different aspects. I'm not going to do this for the rest of my life, but I want to keep challenging myself. And if I'm fearful of something I definitely want to step into it and see how good or bad I am at it.

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#31. Doing all the rig work and the stunt work has actually been wonderful. It's a whole new skill set that I've learned that I'll get to take onto my next jobs. We get to do that all the time, the fighting and the learning new moves. It's quite exciting.

Dustin Clare

#32. Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.

Dustin Clare

#33. There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.

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#34. But questions have the odd habit of reappearing.

Omar Saif Ghobash