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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.

Alan Arkin

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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Decay Ground Grow Middle Still
Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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Fall Risk Thinking
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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Cockney Electronic Imagine Impossible Indian Negro Sing Southern Ten Year
It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Feel Keep Like More Mystery Surprise
I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Close Feel Oppose Other Sympathetic Them Want
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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Almost Anyplace Change Constant Difficult Experience Fact Hollywood More Place Rigid Strange Structure
” 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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Ancient Education Help Idea Information Jam Knowledge Mean Pull Somebody Teach Themselves
All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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Compassion Delight Feel Part Say Some Way
I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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Actor Against Competition Each Field Hard Horse Other Put Race Time Treat
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.
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All Create Do Hand Like Material Movement Something Time
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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Back Educo Form Learn Lord Mean Pull Refer Root Teach
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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Bring Delusion Peace Seriously Under World
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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Comedy Favorite Film Kind Serious
Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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Go Know never Out React Thing Turn
I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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Again Chance Entail Explore Find Limit Same Suppose Take Thing
I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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Competition Feel Important Industry Realy See Studious

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