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Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously

Clint Eastwood

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
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Children Crime Punishment Reason
I’d say people get to work and start being more understanding of everybody – instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding. But get in there and get it done. Kick ass and take names. And this may be my dad talking, but don’t spend what you don’t have.
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Dad Myself People Understand
Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there’s a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They’re forgetting the fact that there’s a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.
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Action Couple Forget Myself Violence
There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.
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People Two World
Go ahead, make my day.
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Myself One Liner
Directing is more like you’re being a psychologist and you’re kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.
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Direction Kind Person Yourself
You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.
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Actor Instinct Moments Trust Youreslf
A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
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Eyes People
The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don’t have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.
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Feeling Fun Man People Woman
I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who’s doing Rawhide.
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Believe Courage Myself Opportunity People
I’m a firm believer in research, but I’m also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.
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Body Myself Research Soul
That’s the secret to a movie career – just keeping an open mind.
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Career Mindset Secret
I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.
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Believe Government Myself Responsibility
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
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Body Democracy Intellectual Kind Party
You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people’s characteristics so that you can design characters around what you’ve seen.
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Character Design People
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
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Control Myself Policy Strict Weapon

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