Elia Kazan Quotes
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.
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For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
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By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.
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White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.
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I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
