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" Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view. "
Clint Eastwood
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" They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks. "
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" I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him. "
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" I think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime. "
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" I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy. "
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" I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject. "
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" You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good. "
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" I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested. "
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" I don't mind telling a dark side. "
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" Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict. "
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Intense
" In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess. "
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" There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial. "
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" You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. "
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" There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. "
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" The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate. "
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" My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself. "
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Grandfather
Father
Good
" When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared. "
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Came
Thought
Movies
" My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble. "
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Believe
" I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela. "
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I Think
Learn
Think
" At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel. "
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" I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.' "
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Camera
Said
Trying
" My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make. "
Clint Eastwood
Ask
Always
People
" We boil at different degrees. "
Clint Eastwood
Anger
Degrees
Boil
" When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice. "
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Want
Work
Ready
" A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries. "
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War
Thing
Also
" Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off. "
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Men
Time
Fall
" I like a drama. "
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" I love big business! "
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Big Business
Love
Big
" I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet. "
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Lot
" My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over. "
Clint Eastwood
Mother
Listening
Music
" Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving. "
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Fast
Picture
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