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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.

Alan Arkin

As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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