Elia Kazan Quotes
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Quotes to Explore
-
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
-
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
-
Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
-
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
-
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
-
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
-
I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
-
The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
-
I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
-
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
-
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
-
We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
-
Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
-
Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
-
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
-
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
-
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
-
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
-
I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.
-
I know so many kids who literally are, like, Instagram-famous. They have done nothing but post pictures on Instagram. And they have followings. People love to see them in person, but it's only because they post on their Instagram. It's literally crazy.
-
We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.
-
The first mile is mental. The rest are all heart.
-
I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.
-
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
