What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
ALAN ARKINI’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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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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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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 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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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