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" I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century. "
Robert Duvall
Young
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" God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. "
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" What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people. "
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" To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part. "
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" We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible. "
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" The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there. "
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" If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow. "
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" One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it. "
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" We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter. "
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" The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife. "
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" You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich. "
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" You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible. "
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" Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long. "
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" I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country. "
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" The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money. "
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" Well, I had a wonderful career. "
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" It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre. "
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" I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher! "
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