Elia Kazan Quotes
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.Elia Kazan
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
Orison Swett Marden -
After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
Laura Osnes -
I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
Rachel Roy -
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary -
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
J. Cole -
In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
Ram Shriram -
I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
Kangana Ranaut -
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
Dan Gilbert -
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
Walter Reisch
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
Oriana Fallaci -
We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
Jackie Speier -
All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
Zosia Mamet -
Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
Orlando Bloom -
I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
Naveen Andrews -
Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
Yoko Ono
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My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
Angie Dickinson -
Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.
Mark Skousen -
Before the final battle in 'Poison Princess,' Evie remembered how to use her Empress powers, practiced with them to the point of exhaustion, then had a trial by fire. In a way, she earned those powers, as she hadn't before, so that was certainly a confidence builder.
Kresley Cole -
Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
Warren Moon -
There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course.
Barack Obama -
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.
Elia Kazan