Elia Kazan Quotes
TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.
Quotes to Explore
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I got no hate in me.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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I've been saying it all along: please do not demonise Robert Mugabe. I'm not saying the methods he's using are correct, but he was put under great pressure.
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If God did not act first, no one would be saved.
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It's getting harder to make decisions to work for the sake of working. Like everybody, I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply. Sometimes something like The Tourist comes up and it's just fun, but it's not as easy to find projects that I have to do. I have to be home and I have to do other things, but I don't have to work as much.
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From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
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Things that are impossible just take longer.
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TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.
