Elia Kazan Quotes
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
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So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!
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Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.
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The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
