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Brit Marling Quotes

Total quotes: 27
“I’m still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.”
— Brit Marling, Brit Marling: True Brit
Tagged: Profiles, People, News
“The biggest mistake I made was believing that if I cast a beautiful net I’d catch only beautiful things.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: New Colossus
Tagged: mistake, beauty, Belief, catch
“I often find commonplace happiness in extraordinary moments and sublime happiness in the seeming mundane”
— Brit Marling
Tagged: Happiness, Human Beauty, human happiness, Human Connection
“The hardest thing, which no one ever tells you, is to figure out exactly what it is you actually want.”
— Brit Marling
Tagged: Life, Want, want in life
“There’s no such thing as good and evil, black and white. There’s only gray. There’s only what a man can stand.”
— Dr. Hunter 'Hap' Percy, The OA, Season 1: Invisible Self
Tagged: Good, Evil, Black, white, gray, Stand, Hard Times
“Lab rats are only powerless because they don’t understand that they’re in an experiment. But they’re just as much a part of it as the scientist, in some ways even more.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Away
Tagged: Lab Rats, powerless, experiment, Science, Scientist
“The first time you fall asleep in prison, you forget. You wake up a free woman. And then you remember that you’re not. You lose your freedom many times before you finally believe it.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Champion
Tagged: fall asleep, Prision, free woman, Freedom, Belief
“They said it would be invisible. Like jumping into an invisible current that just carries you away.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Invisible Self
Tagged: Invisible, Simile Examples, carried away, helpless
“I am not your lab partner. I am not your friend. I’m your slave. You want to know what happens on the other side? Put yourself in that machine and die for it.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Forking Paths
Tagged: Refusal, Lab Partner, Friend, Slave, Machine, Die
“Truth bomb: sometimes it's hard to live the life that would make you happy instead of the life that would make other people think you are happy.”
— Brit Marling
Tagged: Life, Happiness, happiness in life, life and happiness
“You can tell a lot about yourself by how you treat people who can do nothing for you.”
— Brit Marling
Tagged: Personality, Attitude, character
“You don't live with what other people think about you, you live with what you think about you. Think about that.”
— Brit Marling
Tagged: Life, life advice, Live for yourself, live the life you want
“People who want power will always try to control those who truly possess it.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Paradise
Tagged: Power, Control, Posses, Power Trip
“It’s not really a measure of mental health to be well-adjusted in a society that’s very sick.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Homecoming
Tagged: measure, Mental Health, well-adjusted, Society, Sick
“There’s nothing more isolating than not being able to feel time. To not feel the distance between hours, days.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Champion
Tagged: Isolating, Alone, Time, feel time, Distance
“I want you to close your eyes. I want you to imagine everything I tell you as if you’re there yourself, as if you’re with me, as if you are me.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Homecoming
Tagged: close your eyes, Imagine, Everything, Perspective
“It’s one thing to make a plan. It’s another altogether to execute it.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Away
Tagged: plan, altogether, execute, strategy
“To love someone is to agree to live inside an unsolvable mystery. You can never get to the bottom of another's truth or cause.”
— Brit Marling
Tagged: Love, Loving Someone, Definition Of Love
“A good edit of your work can only come from someone trusting you more than you trust you.”
— Brit Marling
Tagged: edit, editing work, Trust
“The equality in a love - sometimes evident only when it becomes clear that both people hold equal power to hurt one another.”
— Brit Marling
Tagged: Love, equality in love
“I see spring cleaning now for what it really is: an identity crisis. Throw away everything that is no longer 'you.'”
— Brit Marling
Tagged: Spring, spring cleaning, Personality, character
“You don’t really know something until your body knows it.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Away
Tagged: Knowledge, Body, don't really know
“Order outside will generate order inside.”
— Dr. Hunter 'Hap' Percy, The OA, Season 1: Paradise
Tagged: order, outside, generate, Change, Inside
“I didn’t disappear, I was present for all of it.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Homecoming
Tagged: Disappear, present, all of it
“A sky so full of feeling it cannot bring itself to rain.”
— Brit Marling
Tagged: Feelings, emotions, Life
“We all died more times than I can count.”
— Prairie Johnson, The OA, Season 1: Homecoming
Tagged: died, more times, count, Death
“All great work, important work, comes at great cost.”
— Dr. Hunter 'Hap' Percy, The OA, Season 1: Champion
Tagged: Great Work, Important, cost
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