Elia Kazan Quotes
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.
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If you're 35, 45, or even 55 - you have a very long time horizon - 40 years or vastly more. That is you, and/or your spouse, are likely to live about that long, and you'll be investing the whole way.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
