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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Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
