Elia Kazan Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
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I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.
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Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
