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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

Thought, Very, Couple, Compromises

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.

- Brit Marling

Think, Living, I Think, Unrest

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

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Nothing, Very, Seemed, Realizing

Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.

- Brit Marling

New, Will, Weeks, Two Weeks

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

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Every Day, Total, Sum, Sum Total

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.

- Brit Marling

Birthday, Idea, Candles, Blowing

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

- Brit Marling

Philosopher, About, Didactic, Science Fiction

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

Happy, Here, I Think, Manage

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

- Brit Marling

Romantic, Still, Hopelessly, Idealist

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

- Brit Marling

Play, Part, Learned, Best Part

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.

- Brit Marling

Doing, Like, Idea, Base

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.

- Brit Marling

Kind, Always, Like, Editing Room

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

- Brit Marling

Study, Understand, Could, Live Life

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

- Brit Marling

Think, Intimacy, I Think, Scared

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

- Brit Marling

Growing Up, Growing, Stories, Wrinkle

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

- Brit Marling

Think, Big, Means, Limitless

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

- Brit Marling

Living, Happen, Made, Cuba

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.

- Brit Marling

Think, Boxes, About, Boxed

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.

- Brit Marling

Think, Human Being, Been, Push

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

- Brit Marling

Mind, Living, Point Of View, Surrendering

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.

- Brit Marling

College, Studio, Films, Besides

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

- Brit Marling

Think, Attractive, I Think, Lifetimes

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

- Brit Marling

Doing, Go, Everybody, Tends

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

- Brit Marling

Love, Doing, The Only Thing, Waking

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

- Brit Marling

Audience, Some, About, Hopefully

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

- Brit Marling

Thought, Other, Became, Hopefully

You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.

- Brit Marling

Writing, Some, Imagine, Stamina

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

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Alive, Quickly, Gotten, Wonder

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.

- Brit Marling

Filmmaking, Something Else, Reverse

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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Away, I Think, Very, Constructing

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