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.

Elia Kazan

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• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Word
  • Performance

• 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.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Positive

• 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.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Music
  • Science
  • Literature

• Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Family
  • Know
  • Run

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Never
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Political
  • Model
  • Connection

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Food
  • Simple
  • Spices

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

  

  Tacitus
  • Character
  • Best
  • Most

• 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.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Growing

• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Parts

• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Stars
  • Sorry

• 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.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • War
  • Control
  • Dreams

• 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.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Country
  • High
  • Today

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Constantly

• One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • You
  • Film
  • Audience

• Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems, can regain property. For this reason alone, the alternative between capitalism and socialism is false-not only because neither exists anywhere in its pure state anyhow, but because we have here twins, each wearing different hats.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Problem
  • Property
  • Socialism

• Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't want to help the countries with problems, and they just want them to tighten their belts.

  

  Sebastian Pinera
  • Country
  • Problem
  • Helping

• Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • World
  • Problem
  • Mythology

• I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Problem
  • Film
  • Director