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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

Alan Arkin

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
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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Been Belong Clas Know Long People Same Three Time Two Unless
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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Believe Definition Entire God Man People Through Universe
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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Business Love never
I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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Competition Feel Important Industry Realy See Studious
You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Amalgamation Beginning Being Culture One Real See World
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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Back Educo Form Learn Lord Mean Pull Refer Root Teach
There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Annoys Familiarity Fire Hell Out Shock Sometimes
I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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Actor Always Consider Live Making Myself
IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Become Done Eat Inform Order Otherwise Own Snake Tail Vampirism
It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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Doubt Murder Point Took Until Yourself
I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Close Feel Oppose Other Sympathetic Them Want
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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All Create Do Hand Like Material Movement Something Time
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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Decay Ground Grow Middle Still
As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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Done Hard Harder Life Work Your
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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Achieve Confront Faceless Happy Moment Participatlly Place Work

IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

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