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Quote by Elia Kazan
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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The belief that the good in American society will finally win out… I dont believe any more. – Elia Kazan

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Society
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Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. – Elia Kazan

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cool
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I wouldnt go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. Its a nasty experience. Youre up there all by yourself. Youre so damn exposed. – Elia Kazan

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Experience
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I love painting and music, of course. I dont know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. Ive certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didnt read it until I was in my late 20s. – Kenneth Koch

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Poetry

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. – John C. Ransom

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Poetry

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me its the home of the extraordinary, the only home. – Philip Levine

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Poetry

Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – Philip Levine

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Poetry

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