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 ARKINYou 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.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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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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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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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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” 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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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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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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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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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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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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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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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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