Elia Kazan Quotes
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Losing all the preconceptions that I had about storytelling, about the world, you know, and learning to see the world from a different perspective. It sounds romantic, but it's not an easy process at all.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
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I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got high marks in it. I decided I didn't want to be removing worms' hearts for the rest of my life in Northern Ontario. I thought I would try acting. So, I went to England to study drama. I got Shakespeared out.
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There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
