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Elia Kazan

"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 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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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

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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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