I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
ALAN ARKINI 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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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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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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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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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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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