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" Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. "
Tommy Lee Jones
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" All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly. "
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" My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. "
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" If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work. "
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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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" As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture. "
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" Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused. "
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" The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going. "
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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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" 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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" The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face. "
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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 don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard. "
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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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" I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character. "
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" I'm kind of pleased with myself that I've got a tailor on Savile Row. I'm 68 years old. I deserve it. "
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" I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains. "
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" My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house. "
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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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" 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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" I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them. "
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" I'm always happy to have a job. "
Tommy Lee Jones
" 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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" I look upon pride as a sin. "
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" I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that's okay. I used to resent that, but I don't anymore. "
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" I think any thinking person should be worried about climate change. "
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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. "
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" I try to be as good a director as I possibly can. I try to be prepared, and I hope everyone else is. The preparation, I suppose, means just about everything. Little things mean a lot. "
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" The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' "
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" I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it. "
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" You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys. "
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