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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

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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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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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.
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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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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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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