Elia Kazan Quotes
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

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My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
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An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
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I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
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Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.
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I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.
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I was sitting in a restaurant.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.
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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
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Theres no drama like wrestling.
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What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.
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Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who can do everything for us, a friend who loves us beyond measure. Here in the Blessed Sacrament we can talk to him straight from the heart. We can open our souls to him, tell him what we need, beg him for powerful graces. We are perfectly free to approach the King of the universe with full confidence and without fear.
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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
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The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.
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You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
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I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.
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You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.