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" In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on. "
Robert Redford
Hands
You
Move On
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" I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me. "
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" For 'Jeremiah Johnson,' nobody wanted to make that film. I went to Sydney Pollack, and I said, 'Sydney, I live in the mountains, and I would like to make a film about a person that had to exist in the mountains and survive in the mountains.' "
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" I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous. "
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" The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it. "
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" When I was a kid, all I knew was that I felt more comfortable sitting in one chair than in another. And now I realize it was because one chair was older. I still respond directly to the age of things. "
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" When you're making a movie, you don't think about the outcome. That's something I'm grateful for: whenever I go and do a new project, I never think about the outcome. It's always just about the work at hand. That's the fun part. The other part is always something I've had a struggle with, which is promoting the film. I know it's important. "
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" I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts. "
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" Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. "
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" Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it. "
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" It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter. "
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" I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. "
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Golf
" I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that. "
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Good
Experience
Adventure
" I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about. "
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Always
People
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" I think a lot of people thought my career started with Butch Cassidy. "
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Career
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" I haven't seen 'The Revenant,' but I'm sure it was great because it has a lot of talent involved. "
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" I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.' "
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Me
Beautiful
Head
" I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in. "
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Journalism
Living
Negative
" Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart. "
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Walking
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" You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story. "
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" I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'. "
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Starting
" I spent two summers working at Camp Curry and at Yosemite Lodge as a waiter. It gave me a chance to really be there every day - to hike up to Vernal Falls or Nevada Falls. It just took me really deep into it. Yosemite claimed me. "
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Day
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" I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed. "
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" I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on? "
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" I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book. "
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" I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful. "
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Want
" The Right has such antiquated ideas - if they took charge, I think they'd want to close the parks, open the land up for development. It's an ongoing battle to keep the parks strong. "
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" I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out. "
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