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" I've loved reading all my life. "
John Wayne
Life
Reading
My Life
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" When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over. "
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" I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. "
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" Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets. "
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" Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. "
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" All I'm for is the liberty of the individual. "
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" I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries. "
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" Get off your butt and join the Marines! "
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" Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. "
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" I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star. "
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" I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne. "
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One Word
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" Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. "
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" All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him. "
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" Get off your horse and drink your milk. "
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" In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures. "
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Pictures
Meet
" Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it. "
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Simple
Simplicity
Art
" If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?' "
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Black
Hell
White
" Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that. "
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" When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me. "
John Wayne
Uncomfortable
Know
Me
" Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. "
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Being Scared
Death
Courage
" I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props. "
John Wayne
Ashamed
Acting
Why
" I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am. "
John Wayne
I Am
Want
Best
" I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on. "
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Head
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" Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes. "
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