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 ARKINTen years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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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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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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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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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 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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I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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