Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
ALAN ARKINI used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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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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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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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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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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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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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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I’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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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