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.
ALAN ARKINI gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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