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.
ALAN ARKIN” 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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 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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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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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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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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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 know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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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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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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