Elia Kazan Quotes
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when Holmes became a specialist in crime.
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I was lucky to grow up with phenomenal parents who were into talking about things. When something hit me hard as a kid, we'd just talk about it. I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me. I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.
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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
