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" I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word. "
Tommy Lee Jones
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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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" I love cinema. "
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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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" 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've never really known what glamour is. "
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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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" In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect. "
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" The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me. "
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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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" 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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" If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common. "
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" I'm a hedonist. "
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" I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored. "
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" No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time. "
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" In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything. "
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" It's important for me as an actor to know the entire script before you start shooting, and especially if you're directing, you don't want to be struggling with anything. "
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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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" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "
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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 still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas. "
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" I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve. "
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" How do you play someone in a movie? How do you do that? It's impossible - unless you know how. How do you cut somebody open and take out their appendix and sew them back up and watch them get well? That's impossible - unless you know how. "
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" It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbers of people. That, too, is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve when called on. "
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" I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer. "
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" Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters. "
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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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" I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid. "
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" I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains. "
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