Elia Kazan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
-
I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
-
Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
-
The world is too violent right now.
-
I'm not a psychiatrist.
-
Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
-
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
-
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
-
The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
-
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
-
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
-
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
-
I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
-
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
-
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
-
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
-
I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
-
So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
-
As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.
-
Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.
-
I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album was called 'Songs And Stories,' and it had good songs and good performances, but I promised them I would do an album that was more jazz-oriented.
-
Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious.
-
Everybody can relate to being real or true. Somehow, someway, you want to be real and true.
-
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
