Elia Kazan Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
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Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white.
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I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'
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People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'
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I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.
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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
