Elia Kazan Quotes
A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
Elia Kazan
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
Forest Whitaker
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
Jack Irons
Pearl Jam
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
Larry Wilmore
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
Dan Pink
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
Kat Graham
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
Barbara Bush
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
J. B. Smoove
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
Fiona Apple
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
J. K. Simmons
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The surface is all you get of me.
Gary Hume
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
Walter Jon Williams
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
Laetitia Casta
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
Barbara Mertz
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The case is a good example of what Van Vogt came to call 'the violent man' or the 'Right Man.' He is a man driven by a manic need for self-esteem - to feel that he is a 'somebody.' He is obsessed by the question of 'losing face,' so will never, under any circumstances, admit that he might be in the wrong.
Colin Wilson
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The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
Pele
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The thing I loved about the cartoons I grew up with is, to this day, I'm still just starting to get certain references from Bugs Bunny cartoons. I'll see some film noir movie and go, 'Wait, that's what Bugs Bunny was quoting!' I like the idea we made the unfolding fortune cookie for ten years from now.
Christopher McCulloch
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
Ted Deutch
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I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.
Marie-Chantal Claire
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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
Elia Kazan
