I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
ALAN ARKININ order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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