Elia Kazan Quotes
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.
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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
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I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
