Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
ALAN ARKINI 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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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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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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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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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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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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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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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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If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit.
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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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” 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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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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