Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
ALAN ARKINWhat I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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