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Elia Kazan

"The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end."

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"The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

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"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

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"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

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"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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"I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later."
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"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."
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"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action."
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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."
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"I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am."
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"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."
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"I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me."
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"For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists."
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"I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest."
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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 a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."
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