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" I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later. "
Elia Kazan
Communist
Got
Party
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" I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action. "
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" I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. "
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" There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway. "
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" I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show. "
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" I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. "
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" Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit. "
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" I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. "
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" I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable. "
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" You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. "
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" I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. "
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" The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it. "
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" Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him. "
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Fighter
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" I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made. "
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" Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? "
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Quick
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" You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility. "
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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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Theatre
" A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. "
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Shot
Director
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" Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it. "
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Miracle
Picture
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" I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this. "
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Believe
Hate
Giving Up
" Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. "
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Mystery
Will
Cool
" I may be getting old, but not foolish. "
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Old
Foolish
Getting Old
" I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me. "
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Like
Me
Nice
" I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb. "
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I Think
Collaboration
Thumb
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