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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Fabulous" Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as he severed the stem. He smiled maliciously, then started stomping with abandon through the beds of blossoms, a chorus of tinny, shrill screams punctuating every step.
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
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I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll see major conflicts over water and the proliferation of water refugees. We inhabit a water planet, and unless we protect, manage, and restore that resource, the future will be a very different place from the one we imagine today.
