Elia Kazan Quotes
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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The writer is all alone.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.
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My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I block out a good amount of time - could be 6 or 8 months - and I just write. I do a lot of traveling, and I do a lot of co-writing with different writers just to start getting ideas out and kind of get a little bit of direction as far as where I'm going to go with the album.
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I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
