What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
ALAN ARKINIf I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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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 gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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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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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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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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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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