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" As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege. "
Tommy Lee Jones
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" I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas. "
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" I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it. "
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" The entire elementary school in Rotan, Texas, presented a theatrical production of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.' And the part of Sneezy fell to me. "
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" I want to make movies about my country from my point of view. "
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" I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored. "
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" I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it. "
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" There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River. "
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" Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused. "
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" You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys. "
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" I've worked with more than 50 directors ,and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving. You just leave the bad part out. "
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" I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer. "
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" My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed. "
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" I love cinema. "
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" I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth. "
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" I look upon pride as a sin. "
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" I'm a hedonist. "
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" I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it! "
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" My education as a filmmaker has been entirely practical. I started working professionally in the film business in 1970, and I've been at it steadily since, and I pay a lot of attention. "
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" I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world. "
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" As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I'm concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I'm a feminist, but that's not all I am. "
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" I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do. "
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" Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions. "
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" Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious. "
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" Al Gore has been one of my closest friends since the day we met, on the first day of college, 35 years ago. "
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" Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. "
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" The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' "
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" You are going to grow up whether you want to or not. It requires no effort. "
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" I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces. "
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