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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
Actor
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Brit Heyworth Marling
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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 think movies do change people's hearts.
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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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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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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
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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 think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.
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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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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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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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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 I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.
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