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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. – Elia Kazan

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There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors… and that is their competitive sense. – Elia Kazan

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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. – Elia Kazan

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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. – William Bolitho

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Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction. – George Murray

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I used to joke that if acting didnt work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. – Merritt Wever

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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I dont have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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