Brit Marling Quotes
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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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A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
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You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.
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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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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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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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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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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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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!
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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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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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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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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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Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
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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 we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.
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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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As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.
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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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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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So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
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Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.
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Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.