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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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 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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I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
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When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.
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I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'
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For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
