Elia Kazan Quotes
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
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At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn't even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
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You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.
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Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'
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My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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As far as cartoons go, I watched a lot of 'Ed, Edd, n Eddy' when I was a kid.
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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
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I just fell in love with the cowboy way of life.
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Too often today people are ready to tell us: 'This is not possible, that is not possible.' I say: whatever the true interest of our country calls for is always possible.
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I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.
