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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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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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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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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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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
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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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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 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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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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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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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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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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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
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