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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. "
Robert Duvall
Wife
Good
People
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" I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential. "
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" You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. "
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" I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America. "
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" Around my own friends, I like to mess around. "
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Around
" One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it. "
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Argentina
" I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character. "
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" Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. "
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" I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. "
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Crime
Accept
" 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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" But 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. "
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Young
Think
" I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going. "
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Way
Keep Going
I Am
" I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day. "
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Horse
Good
" But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds. "
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Me
Action
Challenge
" To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part. "
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Best
Lonesome
Day
" My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general. "
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Great
Play
Just
" It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes. "
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Big
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" Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne. "
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Wonderful
John Wayne
Easy
" I like the good feeling movies. "
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Good
Movies
Like
" Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films. "
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Good
Special
Today
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Journey
Got
Make
" Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie. "
Robert Duvall
World
You
Hollywood
" God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. "
Robert Duvall
Holy
Them
Guide
" 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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Door
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Live
" A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies. "
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" When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything. "
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Could
Knew
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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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Wife
Die
Battle
" 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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Living
New York
Live
" 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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Always
America
Come
" I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "
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Wife
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" The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly. "
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