Lainie Kazan Quotes
I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.

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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.For one swallow does not makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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I have learned to take a bit more off and rest a little deeper.
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
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No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again.
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I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.