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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.

Alan Arkin

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.
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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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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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 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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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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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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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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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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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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