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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Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?
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I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.
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I had lost my grandfather just a month-and-a-half before I made my debut. I was suddenly scoring runs and getting into the fray. It was a very trying period for me. I was happy as well as sad.
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Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right." But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.
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You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
