Brit Marling Quotes

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• I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

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  Believe, Simple, Trying

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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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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  Thinking, Feelings, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Eventually, if you're the train that's leaving the station, people will race to catch up with you. I think that's one of the things I've figured out. You can't wait for permission to act, you just do; then people are like, "Oh, look at that person just doing over there. Maybe I'll come join them."

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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  Self, Humanity, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

  Brit Marling

  Love Is, People, Great Love

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Imagination, Mind, Innocence

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• For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.

  Brit Marling

  Block, Twilight, Believe

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.

  Brit Marling

  Rocks, Shells, Serious

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

  Brit Marling

  Couple, Way, Compromise

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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!

  Brit Marling

  Writing, Play, Waiting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

  Brit Marling

  Scary, Wake Up, Waking

  "How to Succeed in Hollywood Despite Being Really Beautiful". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.nytimes.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

  Brit Marling

  Different, Done, Want

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Brit Marling

  Jobs, Advice, Training

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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!

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Space, Car

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• I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

  Brit Marling

  Dream, Morning, Reading

  "Brit Marling Talks SOUND OF MY VOICE, THE EAST, Working with Robert Redford in THE COMPANY YOU KEEP, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2012.

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• What I like about acting is that you have to be super, super present in the moment. That's not something that comes to me naturally. But if you take the long view on anything, nothing can really affect you or knock you down. It's like, we're here for a blink, we're just the human experiment, one of many experiments going on in the universe, and it's interesting, it's beautiful by fits and starts, but I can't take it that personally. I'm just one of billions of people attempting.

  Brit Marling

  Beautiful, Views, Long

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

  Brit Marling

  Growing Up, Book, Wrinkles

  "Brit Marling Exclusive Interview Another Earth". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 18, 2011.

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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.

  Brit Marling

  Men, Feminist, Salt

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• I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

  Brit Marling

  Idealist, Stills, Naive

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• When you come out to L.A. to make movies or to do this kind of work, everybody is coming out on their own and you leave your tribe behind. Then, it's a question of, that was your tribe by blood, and now, what is the tribe that you're making by choice or by what you think is important? I think we were having that experience, so somehow the cult world seemed really compelling.

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Blood, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

  Brit Marling

  Complicated, Messy, Flawed

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• For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

  Brit Marling

  Hovering, Strange, Reason

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

  Brit Marling

  Reality, Imagination, Way

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L.A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.

  Brit Marling

  Girl, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Brit Marling

  Life And Death, Birth, Mystery

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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