IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
ALAN ARKINThe 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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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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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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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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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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