Elia Kazan Quotes
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Quotes to Explore
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.
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You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't fit into.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
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People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
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Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
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In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
