“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion; only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”
Photo of Barbara Baxley and James Dean on the set of “East of Eden”
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“There is not enough cocaine in the world that could provide as much energy and wild happiness as that set [of “East of Eden”], those people, that feeling that everything was possible. [Elia] Kazan gave us freedom and Jimmy [Dean] was the bright comet we all had prayed we could be, or that we could be near.“
