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.
ALAN ARKINI 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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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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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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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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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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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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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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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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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 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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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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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