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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
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My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.
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Heck, I drank no more than John Wayne or Ward Bond or Spencer Tracy or Alan Ladd or Robert Walker. But it…
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If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!
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Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar I'm always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac…
— Robert Mitchum
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I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many…
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The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to…
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After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent…
— Dermot Mulroney
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John Wayne never wore Lycra.
— Ron Kauk
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A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and…
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