"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."
-Elia Kazan
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"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."
-Elia Kazan
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose."
-Elia Kazan
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"I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies."
-Elia Kazan
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"I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt."
-Elia Kazan
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"I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show."
-Rickie Lee Jones
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"Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature."
-Jim Fowler
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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
-Boris Kodjoe
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"If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive."
-Susan Rice
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"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
-Clifford D. Simak
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"The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation."
-Lee Myung-bak
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