Elia Kazan Quotes
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
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People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
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The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
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O, let America be America again - The land that never has been yet - And yet must be - the land where every man is free.
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I see society as something dangerous, and you have to save yourself from the rules. I think acting is the way I save myself.
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I will be honest and say that I've never seen a schedule I like.
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He who would pray, must obey.
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I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.
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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.
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This is going to be a long process. It is going to be a process with tensions and complications that will make everybody sometimes have to make painful sacrifices and painful engagements and commitments.
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
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It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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I'm definitely a fighter, like Christina Aguilera would say.
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When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
