"I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me."

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Source : Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.7, Knopf

Elia Kazan

#Nice Quotes #People Quotes #Guy Quotes

“I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, Iâ€™ve managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when theyâ€™re apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razorâ€™s edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliationâ€”between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive,”
“Philo needed investors to give him money to invent television.”
“Don't labor forever over the question of how or if you can do it. Studies have shown that the most successful people make decisions rapidly because they are clear on their values and what they really want for their lives.”
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
“The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.”
“Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.”
“Cole chuckled, saying, â€œFear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.”

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