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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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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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 didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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You're taught - consciously or sub-consciously - to make an indie so you can get through that terrible process and get to Hollywood. I realized when I got there, 'Oh, no; I think I'm better over here.'
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When I do my hair down, it just does not look good. It's just stringy, and it's like a hot mess.
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I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
