"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."

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Source : "The Essentials: 5 Elia Kazan Films You May Not Know". www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2013.

Elia Kazan

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“May be refined, and join the angelic train.”

Source : Phillis Wheatley (2012). “The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir”, p.4, Courier Corporation
“Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.”
“And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime. Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.”
“If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion.”
“It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you are in the dressing rooms you are nothing more than a dirty Negro.”

Source : "1968: Black athletes make silent protest". news.bbc.co.uk. September 1967.
“At every crossroad, follow your dream. It is courageous to let your heart lead the way.”
“You try and nurture the relationship. This day and age we have to do a little more networking than we used to do. All that does is make sure you befriend the people you are working with on a project so you hopefully carry it over to the next one.”
“Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.”

Source : "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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