Elia Kazan Quotes
I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
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I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
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People say they like my fashion-haul videos because it's like you've been shopping with your friends, and you look back over what you have bought.
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There are so many people that want to tell stories. I think that the issue is how hard it is to get your foot in the door to tell your stories.
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I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.