Elia Kazan Quotes
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All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
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Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our creative expression.
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The Forlorn Hope was for the brave. It may have been a courage born of desperation, or foolhardiness, but it was courage just the same.
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You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting."
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I'm like an old turtle these days. I don't run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I'll be where I'm supposed to be.
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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
