Elia Kazan Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
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I've always considered myself something of a musical rebel.
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I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.
