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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Don't be afraid of me. I'm a law maker I'm not a law breaker.
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It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.
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I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
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How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.
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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
