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Elia Kazan Quotes

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: September 7, 1909 - September 28, 2003

Topics

Pictures Convictions Motion Chosen

A lot of people assume that once you're working in Hollywood you become some sort of glamour-diva, which could not be further from the truth about me.

Truth People Me You Become Working

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Time Problems Think Meeting Moral

Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wear my family crest, and I represent my family to the fullest.

Family Me Say Fullest Wear Been

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

Money Growing Up Thought Famous Up

The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.

Life Work Death Limits Powerful

As a kid, falling was embarrassing. As I got older, I got used to falling and picking myself back up. There's not a sense of failure. It's of disappointment. You train so hard to not make mistakes. When you do, you're learning from that. How do I improve? How do I get better for the next time? Through every failure, there's something to be learned.

Learning Failure Time Myself Better

Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.

People Burn Nice Asians Shirts Lot

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

Mother Alone I Am Now Right Single

There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.

Diversity Greed Know Bring Us Case

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Technology Magic Any Advanced

He's a fantastic actor, Kelsey Grammer. You don't have that kind of career without having a talent, without having something to say and to give to an audience.

Talent You Career Say Kind Actor

We write with the souls of thousands of lives saved, the lives of millions of jobs created, liberating multitudes of drivers from the shackles of servitude to iniquitous taxi cartels of corrupt cabals that choked cities with their pollution of air and morals.

Shervin Pishevar

Morals Pollution Write Air Taxi

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