Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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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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 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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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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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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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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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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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