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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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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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.
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I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.
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I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.
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I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.
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I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
