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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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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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 ask for money, all I get is advice. But if I ask for advice, I end up getting money.
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It's a really nice way to cut your teeth, doing live shows. It's like going to the gym because you do have to think fast. You are constantly under the threat of people not laughing. Instead of getting hit, people could just not laugh, so you really are trying to mine quickly for the funniest thing you could say in that moment.
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The movie I worked on that had the most problems and interference came from the smallest indie movie I've ever done. I couldn't believe what the director had to go through; he was destroyed.
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A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.
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Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.
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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.
