Elia Kazan Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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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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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won't tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that's going on.
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I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
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As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
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Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
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That's an unbelievable team that we just beat, ... and it's just a great feeling right now and it just goes to show you that we just never gave up.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
