Elia Kazan Quotes
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
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Team Rock: Away from the band Soundgarden, do you guys still hang out together?
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.
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Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
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I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
