Elia Kazan Quotes
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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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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I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
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Not every artist is a role model.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
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It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
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If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
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Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.
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Just try to add more things to my game each year.
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I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.
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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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He was eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable.
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Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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I go to a poison registry and I find that no one has died from any overdose of any vitamins, herbs, or amino acids... But FIVE THOUSAND people end up dying from drug reactions in a single year.
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Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip.
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.
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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
