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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
Brit Marling
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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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Brit Heyworth Marling
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That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
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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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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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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 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 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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Being a waitress can be a very brutal job sometimes, and I remember during the training, the person said to me, The redder the lips, the better the tips, and that was like the only advice she gave me.
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For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
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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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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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I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
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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'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.
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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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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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Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
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