Elia Kazan Quotes
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I am who I am.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
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My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist seance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.
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Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.