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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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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
Actor
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Film Producer
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Television Actor
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Brit Heyworth Marling
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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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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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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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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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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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I think movies do change people's hearts.
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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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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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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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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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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'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.
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People go to the cinema to be moved they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.
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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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For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
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The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.
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Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.
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