It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
ALAN ARKINI 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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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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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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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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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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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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