” 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.
ALAN ARKINAlan Arkin Quotes
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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.
ALAN ARKIN
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
ALAN ARKIN
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
ALAN ARKIN
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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.
ALAN ARKIN
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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.
ALAN ARKIN
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
ALAN ARKIN
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
ALAN ARKIN
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
ALAN ARKIN
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
ALAN ARKIN
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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.
ALAN ARKIN