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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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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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 have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.
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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
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There's families all across the country that miss people, but there's nothing like military families.
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I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
