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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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Brit Heyworth Marling
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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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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 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 the first thing I thought when I got out to L.A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.
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The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.
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Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.
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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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I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
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The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.
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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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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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When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means. It can take on any form. That's what's so exciting about the time we're in these filmmakers are coming in and letting the story tell itself as it wants to be told.
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