"Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies." — Elia Kazan
"Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies."
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Elia Kazan
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88 Quotes by Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan has 88 quotes on this site.
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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
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The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's…
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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their…
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If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition
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Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
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The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
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More Autobiographies Quotes
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of…
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The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to…
— T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
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I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S.…
— Dan Rather
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I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
— Elizabeth Taylor
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the…
— Harold Acton
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I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I…
— George Seaton
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It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a…
— Unknown Author
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Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to…
— Megan Martha White
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Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I…
— Matthew McGrory
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In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit…
— Jonathan Raban
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Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.
— Steven Pinker
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