Elia Kazan Quotes
The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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I love books.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I am not really into buying a lot of expensive things.
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My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
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History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
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If the thing that you want to happen is happening... it's no longer a movement.
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You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.
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The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.
