Elia Kazan Quotes
He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst, and a feared father of a Jewish home.... He was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them permanent.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
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My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
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It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
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I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst, and a feared father of a Jewish home.... He was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them permanent.
