My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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It doesn’t mean we don’t take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we’re) bringing world peace.
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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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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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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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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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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 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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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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