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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As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.
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Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.
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At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.
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The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
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Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.
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The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
