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"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."

"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."

"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."

"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."

"Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius."

"Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart."

"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."

"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."

"It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence."
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"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."

"Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again."

"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."

"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."
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