Elia Kazan Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
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Of course, eating broccoli raw, nutritionally and aesthetically speaking, is no doubt the best way of all. Raw broccoli makes a delectable salad when sliced into thin strips on a mandolin, marinated in lemon-mustard vinaigrette, then tossed with toasted pecans or hazelnuts, halved cherry tomatoes, and fresh minced basil.
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.
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The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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I never get tired of talking about 'Galaxy Quest.' I am so proud of that movie. Our only fear was that we were having so much fun making the movie we got concerned it might not be as good as we thought it was going to be.
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For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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I am not on social media, as I don't feel the need to communicate with the outside world. People who matter to me are just a call away.
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A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
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I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
