A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
ALAN ARKINI want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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