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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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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.
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My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.
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It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.
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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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I feel like, when the audience connects with something, they enjoy the experience so much that they want other people to go have it. They're like, Don't talk about it. Don't tell. Just go! It's a nice feeling to have people coming around it that way, protecting the ideas in it, so that everyone can see it for themselves.
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I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.
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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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I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.
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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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I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
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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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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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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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