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 speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
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I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.
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Art brings out the grand lines of nature.
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Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.
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You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
