Elia Kazan Quotes
I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
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The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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The erroneous economic belief in scarcity leads directly to the mistaken theological belief that God does not want us to be rich. After all, in a world of scarce physical resources, a person could achieve personal wealth only by taking wealth from another - something that a truly benevolent, loving God would never allow.
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(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.)
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I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
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Change is an action not just an epiphany!
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
