Elia Kazan Quotes
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Most men are fragile.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
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Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.
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I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
