Elia Kazan Quotes
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
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I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.
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Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.
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Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.
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I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development-those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.
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Sometimes we'll sigh - sometimes we'll cryAnd we'll know why just you and I know true love ways.
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People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.
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But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
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To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.
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I sometimes read books on my iPad.
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My besties do Victoria's Secret. I just don't do it.
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All's fair in love and purchasing.
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Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.
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I hear so many people talking about what's wrong, whether it's climate change or whatever, but so few say, 'Well, look, we've got this problem, so let's find the solution. Let's find a scientist, let's find politicians who are prepared to shape the future, or try and keep up with it.'
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Alas! we wake: one scene alone remains, -The exiles by the streams of Babylon.
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Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.
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Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.
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Whenever you anticipate something - like, "it's my highly anticipated whatever" - you are probably going to be disappointed. I wish we could all Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ourselves every time we went to the movies and not know anything about anyone.
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I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.
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Being patient, and backing off. A race is not won on the first lap. A car changes during a race.
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The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
