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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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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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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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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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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I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.
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Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.
