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" One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book. "
Brit Marling
Growing
Time
Loved
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" Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me! "
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" If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity. "
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" Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way. "
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" I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. "
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" I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect. "
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" I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives. "
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" I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being. "
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" We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in. "
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Age
Live
" I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable. "
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Curiosity
" I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences. "
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" I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first. "
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" A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. "
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People
" Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic. "
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You
World
" I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything. "
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You
Enough
" The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it. "
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Role
Fear
Afraid
" We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly. "
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Just
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Truth
" You are the sum total of the choices you make every day. "
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Every Day
Choices
You
" I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel. "
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Myself
Morning
Day
" I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. "
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Possibilities
Budget
Sometimes
" Life is beautiful because it doesn't last. "
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Life Is Beautiful
Life
Last
" I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit. "
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Bit
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" I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me. "
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" One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart. "
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