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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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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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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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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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 totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.
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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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I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
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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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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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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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I think movies do change people's hearts.
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Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of 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 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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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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But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?
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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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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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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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