Elia Kazan Quotes
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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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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I am a very romantic person, and I love 'love' - however cheesy that sounds!
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It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
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Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
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Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe.
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Lyke a pyckpurs pilgrim, ye prie and ye proule At rouers, to rob Peter and paie Poule.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
