Elia Kazan Quotes
I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
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I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own.
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I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.
