Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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 business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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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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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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